图灵和全能机 现代计算机的产生 英文版PDF电子书下载

Acknowledgements 1

1 Universal Machines 1

2 The Blue Pig 4

3 Prolific Piglets:Computers everywhere 8

4 A World Out of Control 14

5 Babbage:A Difference Engine that made a difference? 18

6 The Analytical Engine 27

7 Accidental Information 33

8 Information on the Masses 40

9 The Spur of War 50

10 Zuse in Nazi Germany 53

11 American Speed 66

12 Turing in Secret Britain 78

13 Foundations Shaken 88

14 Mathematics:Truth or game? 93

15 Crisis Looms 100

16 Turing and the Decision Problem 107

17 Government Codes 124

18 The Computer 137

19 Minding the Gap:Many universal machines 145

20 Cold War Minds 162

21 Materialisation 169

Further Reading 180