Feynman lectures on computation
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Feynman lectures on computation
CRC Press, 2019
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"First published 1996 by Westview Press"--T.p. verso
"First issued in hardback 2019"--T.p. verso
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Description
When, in 1984?86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield. Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a ?Feynmanesque? overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers.
Table of Contents
* Introduction to Computers * Computer Organization * The Theory of Computation * Coding and Information Theory * Reversible Computation and the Thermodynamics of Computing * Quantum Mechanical Computers * Physical Aspects of Computation * Afterword: Memories of Richard Feynman
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