On the Foundations of Computing by Giuseppe Primiero (PDF)

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Computing, today more than ever before, is a multi-faceted discipline which collates several methodologies, areas of interest, and approaches: mathematics, engineering, programming, and applications. Given its enormous impact on everyday life, it is essential that its debated origins areunderstood, and that its different foundations are explained. On the Foundations of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and it presents some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combiningboth historical and systematic analyses.The debates this text surveys are among the latest and most urgent ones: the crisis of foundations in mathematics and the birth of the decision problem, the nature of algorithms, the debates on computational artefacts and malfunctioning, and the analysis of computational experiments. By coveringthese topics, On the Foundations of Computing provides a much-needed resource to contextualize these foundational issues.For practitioners, researchers, and students alike, a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to figure out the challenges of its future.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The author of this book argues that computing has three main foundations, which are mathematical foundations, engineering foundations and experimental foundations. On less than 300 pages, surprisingly broad knowledge of these three areas is presented in the three main chapters… The book can beused as a guide for a course in theoretical computer science.” — Gudula Rünger, zbMATH Open About the Author Giuseppe Primiero, Associate Professor of Logic, University of Milan, ItalyGiuseppe Primiero is Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan (Italy). He acts as President of the DHST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and Secretary General of the Association Computability in Europe (CiE). His researchinterests are primarily in Logic and Computation, Philosophy of Computing and Information.

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