Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality by another. Going from the origins of counting to the most blue-skies proposals for novel methods of computation, the authors investigate the extent to which the laws of
nature and of logic constrain what we can compute. In the process they examine formal computability, the thermodynamics of computation and the promise of quantum computing.
- ISBN10 6613624608
- ISBN13 9786613624604
- Publish Date 3 February 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format eBook
- Pages 246
- Language English