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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibnitz to Turing Hardback - 2000
by Martin Davis; Martin David
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"The Universal Computer" traces the development of computer concepts by exploring with captivating detail the lives and work of the geniuses who first formulated them. Readers can come away with a revelatory understanding of how and why computers work and how the algorithms within them came to be. Major review attention.
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SITUATED SOUTHEAST OF the German city of Hanover, the ore-rich veins of the Harz mountain region had been mined since the middle of the tenth century.
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- Title The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibnitz to Turing
- Author Martin Davis; Martin David
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Publication date 2000-10-17
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780393047851 / 0393047857
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.48 x 6.32 x 1.02 in (24.08 x 16.05 x 2.59 cm)
- Category Computers - General Information
- Library of Congress subjects Electronic digital computers - History
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00040200
- Dewey Decimal Code 004.09
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- Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1656
- Publishers Weekly, 10/09/2000, Page 84
- Scitech Book News, 03/01/2001, Page 20
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