Handbook of Unconventional Computing (in 2 Volumes)
暫譯: 非常規計算手冊(兩卷本)
Adamatzky, Andrew
- 出版商: World Scientific Pub
- 出版日期: 2021-10-19
- 售價: $16,800
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $15,960
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 1000
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9811235031
- ISBN-13: 9789811235030
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商品描述
Did you know that computation can be implemented with cytoskeleton networks, chemical reactions, liquid marbles, plants, polymers and dozens of other living and inanimate substrates? Do you know what is reversible computing or a DNA microscopy? Are you aware that randomness aids computation? Would you like to make logical circuits from enzymatic reactions? Have you ever tried to implement digital logic with Minecraft? Do you know that eroding sandstones can compute too?This volume will review most of the key attempts in coming up with an alternative way of computation. In doing so, the authors show that we do not need computers to compute and we do not need computation to infer. It invites readers to rethink the computer and computing, and appeals to computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and philosophers. The topics are presented in a lively and easily accessible manner and make for ideal supplementary reading across a broad range of subjects.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
你知道計算可以透過細胞骨架網絡、化學反應、液體彈珠、植物、高分子以及其他數十種生物和無生命基質來實現嗎?你知道什麼是可逆計算(reversible computing)或DNA顯微鏡(DNA microscopy)嗎?你知道隨機性如何幫助計算嗎?你想用酶反應來製作邏輯電路嗎?你曾經嘗試在Minecraft中實現數位邏輯嗎?你知道侵蝕的砂岩也能進行計算嗎?本書將回顧大多數關於提出替代計算方式的關鍵嘗試。在這個過程中,作者展示了我們不需要電腦來進行計算,也不需要計算來推斷。這本書邀請讀者重新思考電腦和計算,並吸引計算機科學家、數學家、物理學家和哲學家。這些主題以生動且易於理解的方式呈現,適合作為廣泛主題的理想補充閱讀。