Exploring a vast array of topics related to computation, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective covers the historical and technical foundation of ancient and modern-day computing. The book starts with the earliest references to counting by humans, introduces various number systems, and discusses mathematics in early civilizations. It gui

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Information

Publisher

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Year

2014

ISBN

9781482227420

Edition

Topic

Computer Science

Subtopic

Programming Games

Index

Computer Science

Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: The Dawn of Counting
Chapter 2: Representation of Numbers
Chapter 3: Rational and Irrational Numbers
Chapter 4: Prime Numbers
Chapter 5: Euclid’s Elements
Chapter 6: Diophantus of Alexandria and Arithmetica
Chapter 7: Secret Writing in Ancient Civilization
Chapter 8: The Abacus
Chapter 9: Book of Calculation by Fibonacci
Chapter 10: Decimal Fractions and Logarithms
Chapter 11: Calculating Machines
Chapter 12: Solutions to Algebraic Equations
Chapter 13: Real and Complex Numbers
Chapter 14: Cardinality
Chapter 15: Boolean Algebras and Applications
Chapter 16: Computability and Its Limitations
Chapter 17: Cryptography from the Medieval to the Modern Ages
Chapter 18: Electronic Computers
Chapter 19: Numerical Methods
Chapter 20: Modular Arithmetic
Chapter 21: Cybernetics and Information Theory
Chapter 22: Error Detecting and Correcting Codes
Chapter 23: Automata and Formal Languages
Chapter 24: Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 25: Programming Languages
Chapter 26: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Chapter 27: The Design of Computer Algorithms
Chapter 28: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Chapter 29: Computer Networks
Chapter 30: Public-Key Cryptography
Chapter 31: Quantum Computing
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