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Computation, Proof, Machine

Mathematics Enters a New Age

By: Gilles Dowek

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Computation, Proof, Machine

Mathematics Enters a New Age

By: Gilles Dowek

Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the 'pure' mathematician. Mathematical methods - especially the notion of proof - that have their roots in classical antiquity have seen a radical transformation since the 1970s, as successive advances have challenged the priority of reason over computation. Like many revolutions, this one comes from within. Computation, calculation, algorithms - all have played an important role in mathematical progress from the beginning - but behind the scenes, their contribution was obscured in the enduring mathematical literature. To understand the future of mathematics, this fascinating book returns to its past, tracing the hidden history that follows the thread of computation. Along the way it invites us to reconsider the dialog between mathematics and the natural sciences, as well as the relationship between mathematics and computer science. It also sheds new light on philosophical concepts, such as the notions of analytic and synthetic judgment. Finally, it brings us to the brink of the new age, in which machine intelligence offers new ways of solving mathematical problems previously inaccessible. This book is the 2007 winner of the Grand Prix de Philosophie de l'Académie Française.

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The Age of Algorithms

By: Serge Abiteboul,Gilles Dowek

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The Age of Algorithms

By: Serge Abiteboul,Gilles Dowek

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

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Principles of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek

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Principles of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek

By introducing the principles of programming languages, using the Java language as a support, Gilles Dowek provides the necessary fundamentals of this language as a first objective. It is important to realise that knowledge of a single programming language is not really enough. To be a good programmer, you should be familiar with several languages and be able to learn new ones. In order to do this, you’ll need to understand universal concepts, such as functions or cells, which exist in one form or another in all programming languages. The most effective way to understand these universal concepts is to compare two or more languages. In this book, the author has chosen Caml and C. To understand the principles of programming languages, it is also important to learn how to precisely define the meaning of a program, and tools for doing so are discussed. Finally, there is coverage of basic algorithms for lists and trees. Written for students, this book presents what all scientists and engineers should know about programming languages.

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1848820321

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Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek,Jean-Jacques Lévy

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Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek,Jean-Jacques Lévy

The design and implementation of programming languages, from Fortran and Cobol to Caml and Java, has been one of the key developments in the management of ever more complex computerized systems. Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages gives the reader the means to discover the tools to think, design, and implement these languages. It proposes a unified vision of the different formalisms that permit definition of a programming language: small steps operational semantics, big steps operational semantics, and denotational semantics, emphasising that all seek to define a relation between three objects: a program, an input value, and an output value. These formalisms are illustrated by presenting the semantics of some typical features of programming languages: functions, recursivity, assignments, records, objects, ... showing that the study of programming languages does not consist of studying languages one after another, but is organized around the features that are present in these various languages. The study of these features leads to the development of evaluators, interpreters and compilers, and also type inference algorithms, for small languages.

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0857290762

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Proofs and Algorithms

An Introduction to Logic and Computability

By: Gilles Dowek

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Proofs and Algorithms

An Introduction to Logic and Computability

By: Gilles Dowek

Logic is a branch of philosophy, mathematics and computer science. It studies the required methods to determine whether a statement is true, such as reasoning and computation. Proofs and Algorithms: Introduction to Logic and Computability is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of contemporary logic - those of a proof, a computable function, a model and a set. It presents a series of results, both positive and negative, - Church's undecidability theorem, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, the theorem asserting the semi-decidability of provability - that have profoundly changed our vision of reasoning, computation, and finally truth itself. Designed for undergraduate students, this book presents all that philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists should know about logic.

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The Age of Algorithms

By: Serge Abiteboul,Gilles Dowek

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The Age of Algorithms

By: Serge Abiteboul,Gilles Dowek

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts of work, property, government, private life, even humanity. Going easily from one extreme to the other, we rejoice that they make life easier for us, but fear that they will enslave us. To get beyond this vision of good vs evil, this book takes a new look at our time, the age of algorithms. Creations of the human spirit, algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it's up to us to choose the world we want to live in.

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110860031X

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Third International Conference, ITS'96, Montreal, Canada, June 12-14, 1996. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier,Alan Lesgold

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Third International Conference, ITS'96, Montreal, Canada, June 12-14, 1996. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier,Alan Lesgold

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS '96, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 1996. The book contains 69 revised papers selected from a total of 128 submissions; also included are six invited papers from well-known speakers. All in all, the book reflects the state-of-the-art in the area. In particular the following topics are covered: advising systems, ITS architectures, cognitive models, design issues, empirical studies, formal models, learning environments, real-world applications, software tools for tutoring, student modelling, teaching and learning strategies, and multimedia and WWW.

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3540613277

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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

11th International Conference, VMCAI 2010, Madrid, Spain, January 17-19, 2010, Proceedings

By: Gilles Barthe

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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

11th International Conference, VMCAI 2010, Madrid, Spain, January 17-19, 2010, Proceedings

By: Gilles Barthe

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2010, held in Madrid, Spain, in January 2010. The 21 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. In addition 3 invited talks and 3 invited tutorials are presented. Topics covered by VMCAI include program verification, program certification, model checking, debugging techniques, abstract interpretation, abstract domains, static analysis, type systems, deductive methods, and optimization.

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Computation, Proof, Machine

Mathematics Enters a New Age

By: Gilles Dowek

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Computation, Proof, Machine

Mathematics Enters a New Age

By: Gilles Dowek

Computation, calculation, algorithms - all have played an important role in mathematical progress from the beginning - but behind the scenes, their contribution was obscured in the enduring mathematical literature. To understand the future of mathematics, this fascinating book returns to its past, tracing the hidden history that follows the thread of computation.

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0521118018

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Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek,Jean-Jacques Lévy

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Principles of Programming Languages

By: Gilles Dowek

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Computation, Proof, Machine

Computation, Proof, Machine

The Age of Algorithms

The Age of Algorithms

Principles of Programming Languages

Principles of Programming Languages

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

Proofs and Algorithms

Proofs and Algorithms

The Age of Algorithms

The Age of Algorithms

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

Computation, Proof, Machine

Computation, Proof, Machine

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

Principles of Programming Languages

Principles of Programming Languages

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