Thursday, May 24, 2018

The Turing Omnibus by A. K. Dewdney (1989, ISBN 0-7167-8154-9). Subtitle-- 61 Excursions in Computer Science.
This book has 61 chapters, one for each excursion. The chapters are fairly short, 6-7 pages each. They cover mostly theoretical computer science. Examples include-- Algorithms, Finite Automata, Systems of Logic, Simulation, Game Trees, etc. Because the chapters are short they really only hint at what they are about. Most of these subject would require whole books just to begin to cover them. Still, if you are looking for an overview of computer science then this book delivers that.

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