TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Martin TI - The universal computer: the road from Leibniz to Turing SN - 9781466505193 (alk. paper) AV - QA76.17 .D38 2012 U1 - 004 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla. PB - CRC Press KW - Electronic digital computers KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Leibniz's dream -- Boole turns logic into algebra -- Frege : from breakthrough to despair -- Cantor : detour through infinity -- Hilbert to the rescue -- Godel upsets the applecart -- Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer -- Making the first universal computers -- Beyond Leibniz's dream -- Epilogue -- Notes ER -