COMPUTABLE UNIVERSE, A: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814374296 ISBN 13: 9789814374293

Verlag: World Scientific, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.It focuses on two main questions: The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational understanding of the universe. They discuss computation in the world from a variety of perspectives, ranging from foundational concepts to pragmatic models to ontological conceptions and philosophical implications.The volume provides a state-of-the-art collection of technical papers and non-technical essays, representing a field that assumes information and computation to be key in understanding and explaining the basic structure underpinning physical reality. It also includes a new edition of Konrad Zuse's "Calculating Space" (the MIT translation), and a panel discussion transcription on the topic, featuring worldwide experts in quantum mechanics, physics, cognition, computation and algorithmic complexity.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Alan M Turing -- the inventor of universal computation, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and is part of the Turing Centenary celebrations.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Scientific
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9814374296
• ISBN 13: 9789814374293
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 856
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