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  • Turing Tales
    Edgar G. Daylight / Edgar GDaylight
    Edgar Daylight's rather provocative theme in this book is that many high-profile computer scientists do not consistently distinguish between their favorite mathematical concepts and the representations thereof in the real world. This leads to mistakes. Daylight introduces seemingly small but useful distinctions. As a result, technical corrections are put forth in connection...
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    27,61 €

  • Formalism & Intuition in Software Development
    Edgar G. Daylight / Edgar GDaylight / Michael A Jackson
    Michael A. Jackson is fascinated by the fundamental question: What is software engineering? Jackson reflects on the constituents of software development. He contrasts the views of Edsger Dijkstra, Tony Hoare, Donald Knuth, Peter Naur, David Parnas, Christopher Strachey, Pamela Zave, and others. Some of the many interrelated topics that come to the fore are software malleability...
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    16,78 €

  • Algorithmic Barriers Falling
    Donald E. Knuth / Donald EKnuth / Edgar G. Daylight / Edgar GDaylight
    'A prize of $10 from Blum, $10 from Meyer, £4 from Paterson and 30-DM from Schnorr is offered to anyone who first solves the Cook-Karp problem whether P = NP.Blum bet $100 that P != NP against Paterson’s $1 that P = NP.' -- SIGACT News, January 1973, page 3These playful bets capture youthful optimism in Complexity Theory. Did Donald E. Knuth share this optimism at the time? A...
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    22,52 €

  • The Essential Knuth
    Donald E. Knuth / Donald EKnuth / Edgar G. Daylight / Edgar GDaylight
    Donald E. Knuth lived two separate lives in the late 1950s. During daylight he ran down the visible and respectable lane of mathematics. During nighttime, he trod the unpaved road of computer programming and compiler writing. Both roads intersected! -- as Knuth discovered while reading Noam Chomsky’s book Syntactic Structures on his honeymoon in 1961.'Chomsky’s theories fascina...
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    14,31 €

  • Pluralism in Software Engineering
    Edgar G. Daylight / Edgar GDaylight
    'What an absolutely cool guy!'--- Dennis Shasha, NYU'Fascinating... very worthwhile'--- Robert Harper, CMUWhat mathematical rigor has and has not to offer to software engineers.Peter Naur wrote his first research paper at the age of 16. Soon aninternationally acclaimed astronomer, Naur’s expertise in numericalanalysis gave him access to computers from 1950.He helped design and ...
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    20,11 €