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On the Foundations of Computing

On the Foundations of Computing

On the Foundations of Computing Paperback / softback - 2020

by Giuseppe Primiero

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
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  • Title On the Foundations of Computing
  • Author Giuseppe Primiero
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2020-01-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780198835653
  • ISBN 9780198835653 / 0198835655
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Computers - General Information
  • Library of Congress subjects Computers - History, Computer science - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019947624
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

Giuseppe Primiero, Associate Professor of Logic, University of Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Primiero is Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan (Italy). He acts as President of the DHST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and Secretary General of the Association Computability in Europe (CiE). His research interests are primarily in Logic and Computation, Philosophy of Computing and Information.

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