| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. What is computation? -- 3. Mechanical computers and their limits -- 4. Logical limits to computing -- 5. Heat, information, and geometry -- 6. Quantum computers -- 7. Beyond the logical limits of computing? -- 8. Hypercomputing proposals. |
| Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Data processing.
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Mathematics -- Data processing. |
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Numerical analysis.
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Numerical analysis. |
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Electronic data processing.
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Electronic data processing. |
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Computer science.
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Computer science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mackenzie, L. M.
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Michaelson, Greg, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cockshott, W. Paul, 1952- Computation and its limits. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199640324 (DLC) 2011945375 (OCoLC)761379949 |
| ISBN |
9780191627002 (electronic book) |
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0191627003 (electronic book) |
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9780199640324 (cloth) |
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0199640327 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9786613624604 |
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