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Computing a historical and technical perspective / Yoshihide Igarashi, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan, Tom Altman, University of Colorado Denver, USA, Mariko Funada, Hakuoh University, Oyama, Japan, Barbara Kamiyama, Gumma University, Kiryu, Japan.
| Author/creator | Igarashi, Yoshihide |
| Other author | Altman, Tom. |
| Other author | Funada, Mariko. |
| Other author | Kamiyama, Barbara. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014] |
| Description | xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The dawn of counting -- Representation of numbers -- Rational and irrational numbers -- Prime numbers -- Euclid's elements -- Diophantus of Alexandria and the Arithmetica -- Secret writing in ancient civilization -- The abacus -- Book of calculation by Fibonacci -- Decimal fractions and logarithms -- Calculating machines -- Solutions to algebraic equations -- Real and complex numbers -- Cardinality -- Boolean algebras and applications -- Computability and its limitations -- Cryptography from the medieval to the modern ages -- Electronic computers -- Numerical methods -- Modular arithmetic -- Cybernetics and information theory -- Error detecting and correcting codes -- Automata and formal languages -- Artificial intelligence -- Programming languages -- Algorithms and computational complexity -- The design of computer algorithms -- Parallel and distributed computing -- Computer networks -- Public-key cryptography -- Quantum computing. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013049662 |
| ISBN | 9781482227413 (hbk. : acid-free. paper) |
| ISBN | 148222741X (hbk. : acid-free paper) |