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The computer & the brain /
In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include the basic organizational framework at the heart...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | Third edition / |
| Colección: | Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword to the third edition / by Ray Kurzweil
- Foreword to the second edition / by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland
- Preface / by Klara von Neumann
- Introduction
- Part 1. The computer. The analog procedure
- The digital procedure
- Logical control
- Mixed numerical procedures
- Precision
- Characteristics of modern analog machines
- Characteristics of modern digital machines
- Part 2. The brain. Simplified description of the function of the neuron
- The nature of the nerve impulse
- Stimulation criteria
- The problem of memory within the nervous system
- Digital and analog parts in the nervous system
- Codes and their role in the control of the functioning of a machine
- The logical structure of the nervous system
- Nature of the system of notations employed : not digital but statistical
- The language of the brain not the language of mathematics.