On the Foundations of Computing - Giuseppe Primiero

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On the Foundations of Computing

By: Giuseppe Primiero

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Paperback | 16 January 2020

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304 Pages

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Computing, today more than ever before, is a multi-faceted discipline which collates several methodologies, areas of interest, and approaches: mathematics, engineering, programming, and applications. Given its enormous impact on everyday life, it is essential that its debated origins are understood, and that its different foundations are explained. On the Foundations of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and it presents some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combining both historical and systematic analyses.

The debates this text surveys are among the latest and most urgent ones: the crisis of foundations in mathematics and the birth of the decision problem, the nature of algorithms, the debates on computational artefacts and malfunctioning, and the analysis of computational experiments. By covering these topics, On the Foundations of Computing provides a much-needed resource to contextualize these foundational issues.

For practitioners, researchers, and students alike, a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to figure out the challenges of its future.

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All these topics are analysed from a historical as well as a logical and epistemological point of view which makes the book a complete introduction to the philosophy of computer science. * Nicola Angius, Axiomathes *
The author of this book argues that computing has three main foundations, which are mathematical foundations, engineering foundations and experimental foundations. On less than 300 pages, surprisingly broad knowledge of these three areas is presented in the three main chapters... The book can be used as a guide for a course in theoretical computer science. * Gudula Ruenger, zbMATH Open *
For practitioners, researchers, and students alike, a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to gure out the challenges of its future. * MathSciNet *

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