Feynman Lectures on Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

Feynman, Richard P.

Westview Press Inc（2000/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 324 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780738202969
• DDC分類 004

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1996 by Addison-Wesley.

Full 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.

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