Computation and its Limits

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Paul Cockshott (Reader, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow) Lewis M Mackenzie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow)

Computation and its Limits

Paul Cockshott (Reader, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow), Lewis M Mackenzie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow), Gregory Michaelson (Professor of Computing Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

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English

01 March 2012

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Physics; Computer science; Mathematical theory of computation

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.

By: Paul Cockshott (Reader Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow), Lewis M Mackenzie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow), Gregory Michaelson (Professor of Computing Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 196mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199640324
ISBN 10: 0199640327
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Computation and its Limits

This book provides a unique and important presentation of the factors that have, do and will limit the science of computation. A most stimulating, scholarly and entertaining synthesis of history, logic, mathematics and science. * Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK * Mathematics, computer science, physics - and even biology - are now beginning to converge. This delightful book, beautifully illustrated, shows the physics of computation and the theory of computation as two sides of the same coin. We are witnessing a paradigm shift, the birth of a fruitful new interdisciplinary point of view. * Gregory Chaitin, author of Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical *