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When, in 1984?86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield. Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a ?Feynmanesque? overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 1st edition (July 7, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0738202967
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0738202969
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 16 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches

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Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, and served with distinction on the Shuttle Commission in 1986. A commemorative stamp in his name was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2023

As expected

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I bought this book mainly for increasing my knowledge of theoretical computing what I now consider as a good idea. Especially, I enjoyed very specific approach of Mr. Feynman how to explain even very intricate concepts and phenomenons. Moreover, he was able to make many interesting links among at first glance unconnected areas of a theoretical computing and physics.

First chapter of the book is dedicated to logical functions, second one to finite state automata and Turing machines, third to theory of coding, fourth to connection between theoretical computing and thermodynamics (mainly this part of book is absorbing, it shows linkage between energy consumption and speed of computing, discusses reversible computing and paving the way to quantum computers). Fifth chapter discussed briefly theoretical background of quantum computers. The last chapter, the most practical of all others, shows how to design logical gates, discusses some techniques used for semiconductor chips manufacturing (be aware the this part is a little bit out-of-date) and finally focusses on "wires" (e.g. so-called "thyrany of numbers") - againinteresting topic which is not very widely discussed nowadays.

Overall, I would recommend this book to specialists working (and students) in the field of computer design and programming who are wanting to understand computers more deeply. Moreover, it seems to me that this book is necessary starting point for everybody who wants to study quantum computers programming. In my case it definitely helped me very much.

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I find this book dissapointing. It doesn't compare with the insight, clarity, and beauty found in the famous "Feynman lectures in physics". Basically what Feynman does in this book is simplify and coaches one though complex Computer Science/ Information Theory Concepts. The book may have the small size of a novel, but I find it to be more like a textbook; because it has many equations (even exercises in the first chapter), and also one has to be quite attentive while reading. I'm not saying this is a bad book, only that, if you liked the "Feynman lectures in physics" it doesn't automatically mean you'll like this book. This book is different, obviously in the sense that it doesn't deal much with physics, and secondly in the fact that it is not passionatly written, I think. Why is this book so expensive anyways?
Now that you got my warning. I can definitely recomend this book for people intereseted in things like:
-theoretical limits of computers (enthropy, energy)
-physical realizations of logic gates (transistors)
-quantum computers

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Bokki Kim

Computing archtecture rationale

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It makes me rethink of fundamental architecture of computer, and know the bottom line of reversible computing relating to quantum computer.

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I was told this would be the book where Feynman laid the foundations for quantum computing. In actuality, most of it is a rather haphazard tour of selected topics from basic computer science, using the old-fashioned bottom-up approach (starting with gates and flip-flops). There are your basic bits about Turing machines and information theory, and some weird stuff about reversible logic which supposedly leads on to the quantum computing. Then there is a reprint of an article about quantum computing which rehashes the latter bits and goes a bit farther, but unfortunately my training in quantum physics did not allow me to follow it. If you want to read good Feynman, try things like Q.E.D., which is brilliant.

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"Dumb as hell but goes like mad. " You should buy it just for ...

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"Dumb as hell but goes like mad." You should buy it just for that insight. Then you would know why we are where we are.

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Alfredo Metere

Simply THE bible of computation

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This book should be textbook in any undergraduate course of computer science. It's excellent, typical Feynman.

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It needs a Leighton and Sands to bring it all the way home. Too much homework.

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Geoff Sharman

Classic text on the physical basis of computing

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Many basic texts on computing start with a discussion of Turing Machines, but then jump straight to modern programing idioms. Feynman doesn't. Following the style of his famous Lectures on Physics, he starts with basic logic gates, goes on to Finite State Machines and Turing Machines, and then discusses a range of topics including coding and information theory, reversible computation and the thermodynamics of computation, and quantum mechanical computers. These provide a thorough understanding of the physical basis of computation and its role in physical processes as well as standard computing.

Whilst the book inevitably has a slightly period feel, it should be required reading for all students of computing because it covers topics which all practitioners should know ... but you won't find in most Computer Science curricula.

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Computer specialists with a historic bent will no doubt like it.

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Ruth Thompson

Good starting point

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As a physics graduate interested in computer science, I was looking for a starting point in the subject from a perspective closer to home. Feynman, as always, does not disappoint.

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