On the Foundations of Computing
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 2019
- ISBN 9780198835646
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 239x163x23 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English 13
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Short description:
On the Foundation of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and analyses some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combining both historical and systematic analyses.
MoreLong 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.
All these topics are analysed from a historical as well as a logical and epistemological point of view which makes the book a complete introduction to the philosophy of computer science.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A fundamental Crisis
Computing and Deciding
What is Computable?
Mechanical Computation
On the Nature of Algorithms
Computing as a Mathematical Discipline
The First Generation of Computers
The Laws of Evolution
Properties of Implemented Computations
Specification and Implementation
Computing as an Engineering Discipline
Elements of Experimental Computing
Models and Simulations
Formal Relations
Computing as an Experimental Discipline
Conclusions
