
Feynman Lectures on Computation
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First published in 1996, this collection of essays on computation, presented at Caltech from 1983-86, give the Feynman treatment to subjects such as computability, Turing machines and information theory. Taken as a whole, they explore the potential and fundamental limitations of digital computers.
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Product details
- Paperback | 320 pages
- 152 x 234 x 24mm | 422g
- 26 Aug 1999
- Penguin Books Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- New edition
- New edition
- b&w diagrams, suggested reading, index
- 0140284516
- 9780140284515
Table of contents
Introduction to computers: computer organization; the theory of computation; coding and information theory; reversible computation and the thermodynamics of computing; quantum mechanical computers; physical aspects of computation. Afterword: memories of Richard Feynman.
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