In mathematics, it simply is not true that 'you can't prove a negative'. Many revolutionary impossibility theorems reveal profound properties of logic, computation, fairness and the universe, and form the mathematical background of new technologies and Nobel prizes. But to fully appreciate these theorems and their impact on mathematics and beyond, you must understand their proofs. This book is the first to present these proofs for a broad, lay audience. It fully develops the simplest rigorous proofs found in the literature, reworked to contain less jargon and notation, and more background, intuition, examples, explanations, and exercises. Amazingly, all of the proofs in this book involve only arithmetic and basic logic - and are elementary, starting only from first principles and definitions. Very little background knowledge is required, and no specialized mathematical training - all you need is the discipline to follow logical arguments and a pen in your hand.
Autor: | Gusfield Dan |
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ISBN: | 9781009349499 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Cambridge Academic |
Veröffentlicht: | 18.01.2024 |
Untertitel: | Elementary Proofs of Profound Impossibility from Arrow, Bell, Chaitin, Gödel, Turing and More |
Schlagworte: | Algorithms & data structures Applied mathematics COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture COMPUTERS / Languages / General COMPUTERS / Logic Design COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms Computer architecture & logic design Computer architecture and logic design MATHEMATICS / Applied MATHEMATICS / Discrete Mathematics MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games Maths for computer scientists Popular and recreational mathematics Popular mathematics Programming & scripting languages: general Programming and scripting languages: general Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory algorithms and data structures |
Dan Gusfield is Distinguished Professor emeritus, and former department chair, in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Davis. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the ISCB. His previous books are 'The Stable Marriage Problem' (1989, co-authored with Rob Irving); 'Strings, Trees and Sequences' (1997); 'ReCombinatorics' (2014); and 'Integer Linear Programming in Computational and Systems Biology' (2019). As this book reflects, his teaching emphasized mathematical rigor as well as accessibility and clarity. He produced over 100 hours of video lectures on a wide range of topics, now viewed over a million times on the web.