New Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science

For everyone from the curious beginner to the working professional, The New Turing Omnibus offers 66 concise, brilliantly written mathematically oriented articles on the major points of interest in computer science theory, technology, and applications. Foundational for this tour: information on algorithms, detecting primes, non-computable functions, and self-replicating computers-plus fundamental sections on the Mandelbrot set, genetic algorithms, the Newton-Raphson Method, neural networks that learn, DOS systems for personal computers, and computer viruses.

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Subject(s)Computing
Author(s)A K Dewdney
Age16-19
Published2001
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Shelf reference004 DEW
ISN/ISBN9780805071665
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8v59

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