Great formal machinery works

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The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digita



The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digital revolution. Jan von Plato examines the contributions of figures such as Aristotle; the nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann Grassmann; George Boole, whose Boolean logic would prove essential to programming languages and computing; Ernst Schroder, best known for his work on algebraic logic; and Giuseppe Peano, cofounder of mathematical logic. Von Plato shows how the idea of a formal proof in mathematics emerged gradually in the second half of the nineteenth century, hand in hand with the notion of a formal process of computation. A turning point was reached by 1930, when Kurt Godel conceived his celebrated incompleteness theorems. They were an enormous boost to the study of formal languages and computability, which were brought to perfection by the end of the 1930s with precise theories of formal languages and formal deduction and parallel theories of algorithmic computability. Von Plato describes how the first theoretical ideas of a computer soon emerged in the work of Alan Turing in 1936 and John von Neumann some years later. Shedding new light on this crucial chapter in the history of science, The Great Formal Machinery Works is essential reading for students and researchers in logic, mathematics, and computer science.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 augustus 2017

Aantal pagina's: 392

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Jan Von Plato

Tweede Auteur: Jan Von Plato

Co Auteur: Von Plato, Jan

Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 37 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 161 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm

Verpakking lengte: 242 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1005 g

EAN: 9780691174174

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