Feynman Lectures on Computation Download

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0201489910

Feynman Lectures on Computation

From 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called APotentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines. Download Feynman Lectures on Computation from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Although the lectures are over ten years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a AFeynmanesque" overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science. These include computability, Turing machines (or as Feynman said, AMr. Turing's machines"), information theory, Shannon's Theorem, reversible computation, the thermodynamics of computation, the quantum limits to computation, and the physics of VLSI devices. Taken together, these lectures represent a unique exploration of the fundamental limitations of digital computers.Feynman's philosophy of l Search and find a lot of computer books in many category availabe for free download.

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