TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igarashi,Yoshihide ...[et al]
TI  - Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective
SN  - 9780429162916
U1  - 004 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - A Chapman & Hall book; Includes bibliographical references and index; chapter 1. The dawn of counting -- chapter 2. Representation of numbers -- chapter 3. Rational and irrational numbers -- chapter 4. Prime numbers -- chapter 5. Euclid's elements -- chapter 6. Diophantus of Alexandria and Arithmetica -- chapter 7. Secret writing in ancient civilization -- chapter 8. The abacus -- chapter 9. Book of calculation by Fibonacci -- chapter 10. Decimal fractions and logarithms -- chapter 11. Calculating machines -- chapter 12. Solutions to algebraic equations -- chapter 13. Real and complex numbers -- chapter 14. Cardinality -- chapter 15. Boolean algebras and applications -- chapter 16. Computability and its limitations -- chapter 17. Cryptography from the medieval to the modern ages -- chapter 18. Electronic computers -- chapter 19. Numerical methods -- chapter 20. Modular arithmetic -- chapter 21. Cybernetics and information theory -- chapter 22. Error detecting and correcting codes -- chapter 23. Automata and formal languages -- chapter 24. Artificial intelligence -- chapter 25. Programming languages -- chapter 26. Algorithms and computational complexity -- chapter 27. The design of computer algorithms -- chapter 28. Parallel and distributed computing -- chapter 29. Computer networks -- chapter 30. Public-key cryptography -- chapter 31. Quantum computing; Also available in print format
UR  - http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781482227420
ER  -