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008			960617s1996 maua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 96025127
020			_a9781138329430
020			_a0201489910
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aQA76 _b.F45 1996
082	0	0	_a004.01 FEY-R _220
100	1		_aFeynman, Richard P. _q(Richard Phillips), _d1918-1988.
245	1	0	_aFeynman lectures on computation / _cRichard P. Feynman ; edited by Tony Hey and Robin W. Allen.
260			_aLondon _bCRC Press _cc1996.
300			_axiv, 303 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
365			_aINR _b895.00
500			_a"When, in 1984-86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman," 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.”
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aElectronic data processing.
700	1		_aHey, Anthony J. G.
700	1		_aAllen, Robin W.
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/96025127-d.html
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