Feynman Lectures On Computation

Feynman, Richard P.; Hey, Anthony J. G. and Allen, Robin W.

ISBN 10: 0140284516 / ISBN 13: 9780140284515

Published by Penguin, 1999

About this Item

UK stocked, available immediately. Trade paperback, published by Penguin Books in 1999. A little wear to the covers and spine, light edge markings. The contents are unmarked throughout, a nice bright copy. Illustrated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Feynman Lectures On Computation
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140284516
• ISBN 13: 9780140284515
• Binding: Good

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Synopsis

When, in 1984?86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield. Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a ?Feynmanesque? overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers.

About the Author

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.