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Product Identifiers

PublisherWolfram Media, Incorporated

ISBN-101579550436

ISBN-139781579550431

eBay Product ID (ePID)26050396782

Product Key Features

Number of Pages362 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCombinators : a Centennial View

SubjectGeneral

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics, Computers

AuthorStephen Wolfram

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length10 in

Item Width7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-004419

IllustratedYes

SynopsisCombinators have inspired ideas about computation ever since they were first invented in 1920, and in this innovative book, Stephen Wolfram provides a modern view of combinators and their significance. Informed by his work on the computational universe of possible programs and on computational language design, Wolfram explains new and existing ideas about combinators with unique clarity and stunning visualizations, as well as provides insights on their historical connections and the curious story of Moses schönfinkel, inventor of combinators. Though invented well before Turing machines, combinators have often been viewed as an inaccessibly abstract approach to computation. This book brings them to life as never before in a thought-provoking exposition of interest across mathematics and computer science, as well as to those concerned with the foundations of formal and computational thinking, and with the history of ideas. Book jacket., Combinators have inspired ideas about computation ever since they were first invented in 1920, and in this innovative book, Stephen Wolfram provides a modern view of combinators and their significance. Informed by his work on the computational universe of possible programs and on computational language design, Wolfram explains new and existing ideas about combinators with unique clarity and stunning visualisations, as well as provides insights on their historical connections and the curious story of Moses Schonfinkel, inventor of combinators. Though invented well before Turing machines, combinators have often been viewed as an inaccessibly abstract approach to computation. This book brings them to life as never before in a thought-provoking exposition of interest across mathematics and computer science, as well as to those concerned with the foundations of formal and computational thinking, and with the history of ideas.

LC Classification NumberQA164.W65 2021