The New Turing Omnibus

Download or read book The New Turing Omnibus written by A. K. Dewdney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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." -- Book cover.