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Computing : a Historical and Technical Perspective.
Exploring a vast array of topics related to computation, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective covers the historical and technical foundation of ancient and modern-day computing. The book starts with the earliest references to counting by humans, introduces various number systems, and di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. The dawn of counting
- chapter 2. Representation of numbers
- chapter 3. Rational and irrational numbers
- chapter 4. Prime numbers
- chapter 5. Euclid's elements
- chapter 6. Diophantus of Alexandria and Arithmetica
- chapter 7. Secret writing in ancient civilization
- chapter 8. The abacus
- chapter 9. Book of calculation by Fibonacci
- chapter 10. Decimal fractions and logarithms
- chapter 11. Calculating machines
- chapter 12. Solutions to algebraic equations
- chapter 13. Real and complex numbers
- chapter 14. Cardinality
- chapter 15. Boolean algebras and applications
- chapter 16. Computability and its limitations
- chapter 17. Cryptography from the medieval to the modern ages
- chapter 18. Electronic computers
- chapter 19. Numerical methods
- chapter 20. Modular arithmetic
- chapter 21. Cybernetics and information theory
- chapter 22. Error detecting and correcting codes
- chapter 23. Automata and formal languages
- chapter 24. Artificial intelligence
- chapter 25. Programming languages
- chapter 26. Algorithms and computational complexity
- chapter 27. The design of computer algorithms
- chapter 28. Parallel and distributed computing
- chapter 29. Computer networks
- chapter 30. Public-key cryptography
- chapter 31. Quantum computing.