Computation and its Limits
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199640327
ISBN-13
9780199640324
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2012
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
730 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 25.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Mathematical logicPopular sciencePhysicsMathematical physicsComputer science
Ksh 17,650.00
Manufactured on Demand
Delivery in 29 days
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 29 days
Secure
Quality
Fast
Although we are entirely unaware of it, computation is central to all aspects of our existences. Every day we solve, or try to solve, a myriad of problems, from the utterly trivial to the bafflingly complex. This book explains why it is possible to do computation and what the ultimate limits of it are, as understood by modern science.
Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality by another. Going from the origins of counting to the most blue-skies proposals for novel methods of computation, the authors investigate the extent to which the laws of nature and of logic constrain what we can compute. In the process they examine formal computability, the thermodynamics of computation and the promise of quantum computing.
Get Computation and its Limits by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Oxford University Press and it has pages.
