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  Living computers
Brazma A., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2024. 320 pp.  Type: Book (0192871943)

Living computers is simultaneously philosophical and scientific. Brazma begins with the following claim: “Life and the recording of information emerged together; there is no life without information and, arguably, there is no informat...

Apr 12 2024
   Information is energy: definition of a physically based concept of information
Pagel L., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 238 pp.  Type: Book (3658408618)

Shannon’s theory of information is one of the cornerstones of modern computer science (CS). The formalism he developed for quantifying channel capacity was previously known from statistical thermodynamics as entropy, and the significance of ...

Apr 8 2024
  Visual complex analysis (25th anniversary ed.)
Needham T., Penrose R., OXFORD UNIVERISTY PRESS, Oxford, UK, 2023. 675 pp.  Type: Book (9780192868923)

Complex analysis has always enhanced the learning of mathematics. The application of complex numbers in other fields has also been widely studied, independent of theoretical studies in mathematics and related subjects. This book looks at the geome...

Apr 1 2024
  D-finite functions
Kauers M., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 664 pp.  Type: Book (9783031346514)

D-finite functions is a comprehensive introduction to computations with functions, particularly the use of D-finite functions, in the design of algorithms targeting proof of presence/lack of relation(s), algorithms dedicated to resolving as...

Mar 27 2024
  Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Families gather during the holiday season, and heated discussions often erupt over politics and cultural values. This situation has become so frequent that it is standard fare in comedy sketches, jokes, and cartoons. It seems as though the opposin...

Mar 11 2024
  Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Many of us grew up used to having some news sources we could implicitly trust, such as well-positioned newspapers and radio or TV news programs. We knew they would only hire responsible journalists rather than risk diluting public trust and losing...

Mar 6 2024
   Information dynamics: in classical and quantum systems
Dittrich T., Springer, New York, NY , 2022. 557 pp.  Type: Book (978-3030967444)

Nowadays, the ubiquitous nature of information invokes the rapid development of new interdisciplinary sciences integrated with computing. One manifestation of this trend is the dynamism of information expressed in the different sciences with regar...

Mar 5 2024
   Automata theory: an algorithmic approach
Esparza J., Blondin M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2023. 560 pp.  Type: Book (0262048639)

Novices to automata theory may want to start with Dines Bjørner’s narrative on principles and techniques, found in the automata theory chapter of his enjoyable three-volume set [1], which covers intuition, motivation, and pragmatics. Bjørner...

Feb 27 2024
   Simple type theory: a practical logic for expressing and reasoning about mathematical ideas
Farmer W., BIRKHAUSER, Basel, Switzerland, 2023. 312 pp.  Type: Book (3031211138)

What has evolved from the famous century-old (Bertrand) Russell paradox and Russell’s consequent theory of types needs, in my opinion, all the useful elaboration, clarification, explication, and explanation that it can get. Any nontrivial ex...

Feb 16 2024
  Exercises in cellular automata and groups
Ceccherini-Silberstein T., Coornaert M., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 627 pp.  Type: Book (9783031103902)

This book has been published as part of the “Springer Monographs in Mathematics” series. It complements the book Cellular automata and groups [1] and its forthcoming second edition by the same authors. The authors have also writ...

Feb 6 2024
 
 
 
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