FEYNMAN LECTURES ON COMPUTATION
Feynman, Richard P. Edited by Anthony J.G. Hey and Robin W. Allen
ISBN 10: 0201489910 ISBN 13: 9780201489910
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass, 1996
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1st edition thus, 2008. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 392 pp., bound in publishers illustrated glossy paper covered boards with matching dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only; text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 38216
Synopsis:
From 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called “Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines.”Although the lectures are over ten 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. These include computability, Turing machines (or as Feynman said, “Mr. Turing's machines”), information theory, Shannon's Theorem, reversible computation, the thermodynamics of computation, the quantum limits to computation, and the physics of VLSI devices. Taken together, these lectures represent a unique exploration of the fundamental limitations of digital computers.Feynman's philosophy of learning and discovery comes through strongly in these lectures. He constantly points out the benefits of playing around with concepts and working out solutions to problems on your own-before looking at the back of the book for the answers. As Feynman says in the lectures: “If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing complexities of your solutions-for the fun of it-then one day you'll turn around and discovers that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.”
About the Author: The late Richard P. Feynman was Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: FEYNMAN LECTURES ON COMPUTATION
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: haven 3/26
Edition: 1st edition.