Binding: Paperback
Description: Computing today more than ever before is a multi - faceted discipline which collates several methodologies areas of interest and approaches: mathematics engineering programming and applications. Given its enormous impact on everyday life it is essential that its debated origins are understood and that its different foundations are explained. On the Foundations of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing and it presents some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline combining both historical and systematic analyses. The debates this text surveys are among the latest and most urgent ones: the crisis of foundations in mathematics and the birth of the decision problem the nature of algorithms the debates on computational artefacts and malfunctioning and the analysis of computational experiments. By covering these topics On the Foundations of Computing provides a much - needed resource to contextualize these foundational issues. For practitioners researchers and students alike a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to figure out the challenges of its future.
Title: On The Foundations Of Computing
Author(s): Primiero Giuseppe (Associate Professor Of Logic Associate Professor Of Logic University Of Milan Italy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198835653
Pages: 318 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2020
Category: Computer Science