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9780805071665
(New) Turing Omnibus 66 Excursions in Computer Science
by Dewdney, A. K.
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- ISBN-13: 9780805071665
- ISBN: 0805071660
- Publication Date: 1993
- Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
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SUMMARY
No other volume provides as broad, as thorough, or as accessible an introduction to the realm of computers as A. K. Dewdney's The Turing Omnibus.Updated and expanded, The Turing Omnibus offers 66 concise, brilliantly written articles on the major points of interest in computer science theory, technology, and applications. New for this tour: updated information on algorithms, detecting primes, noncomputable functions, and self-replicating computers--plus completely new sections on the Mandelbrot set, genetic algorithms, the Newton-Raphson Method, neural networks that learn, DOS systems for personal computers, and computer viruses.Dewdney, A. K. is the author of '(New) Turing Omnibus 66 Excursions in Computer Science', published 1993 under ISBN 9780805071665 and ISBN 0805071660.
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