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This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature. It focuses on two main questions: What is computation? How does nature compute? The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational understanding of the universe. They discuss computation in the world from a variety of perspectives, ranging from foundational concepts to pragmatic models to ontological conceptions and philosophical implications. The volume provides a state-of-the-art collection of technical papers and non-technical essays, representing a field that assumes information and computation to be key in understanding and explaining the basic structure underpinning physical reality. It also includes a new edition of Konrad Zuse's "Calculating Space" (the MIT translation), and a panel discussion transcription on the topic, featuring worldwide experts in quantum mechanics, physics, cognition, computation and algorithmic complexity. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Alan M Turing - the inventor of universal computation, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and is part of the Turing Centenary celebrations.

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer science

• Full title: Computable Universe, A: Understanding And Exploring Nature As Computation
• Author: Hector Zenil
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 856
• EAN: 9789814374293
• ISBN: 9814374296
• ID: 01297618
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 1344 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 159 × 48 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. December 2012

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