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Cull, Paul
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
 
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  Monomial ideals and their decompositions
Moore W., Rogers M., Sather-Wagstaff S., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 412 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319968-74-2)

We usually solve problems by breaking them into smaller problems. In the predominant situations, we have linear systems that can be decomposed into several problems because these systems have a basis, that is, the system is the ...

May 13 2019  
   What can be computed?: A practical guide to the theory of computation
MacCormick J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 408 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691170-66-4), Reviews: (1 of 2)

What should be in a first course on the theory of computation? For 50 years, there has only been one answer: formal grammars and their corresponding automata. Hopcroft and Ullman’s book has been the standard [1], but there ar...

Feb 21 2019  
  Idea makers: personal perspectives on the lives & ideas of some notable people
Wolfram S., Wolfram Media Inc., Champaign, IL, 2016. 250 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-579550-03-5)

We all know Stephen Wolfram as the creator of Mathematica. In this short book, he gives us his perspective on a number of people who have had an impact on computer science and, of course, on Wolfram. The size of these discussions is hi...

Aug 23 2017  
   The Turing guide
Copeland J., Bowen J., Sprevak M., Wilson R., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2017.  Type: Book (9780198747826 ), Reviews: (1 of 2)

According to a famous dictum, history is written by the victors....

Jun 14 2017  
   Turing’s revolution: the impact of his ideas about computability
Sommaruga G., Strahm T., Birkhäuser Basel, New York, NY, 2016. 329 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319221-55-7)

In his famous 1936 paper, Alan Turing solved an outstanding problem in mathematics--“What is an algorithm?”--and laid out the (theoretical) basis for the development of digital computers and progra...

Aug 23 2016  
   ENIAC in action: making and remaking the modern computer
Haigh T., Priestley M., Rope C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 360 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262033-98-5), Reviews: (2 of 4)

Who invented the digital computer? When I was in school, there was a simple answer: the computer was invented by Eckert and Mauchly, the creators of ENIAC. Lawsuits and scholarship have cast a shadow over this simple answer. Should Tur...

Jun 29 2016  
   The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer
Padua S., Pantheon Books, 2015. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-307908-27-8)

Every field has its heroes. The comics are an ideal medium to present these heroes and their tales. Sydney Padua has taken two of the mythological heroes of computing and placed them in a wonderfully imagined and drawn “pocke...

Dec 1 2015  
   The fascinating world of graph theory
Benjamin A., Chartrand G., Zhang P., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015. 344 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691163-81-9), Reviews: (2 of 2)

What could be simpler than graph theory? While it may be just a bunch of dots connected by some lines, graph theory is also very general because it encompasses all two-place relations. Because of this simplicity and generality, graph t...

Jul 27 2015  
   Advanced models of neural networks: nonlinear dynamics and stochasticity in biological neurons
Rigatos G., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2015. 275 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-662437-63-6)

This book could be subtitled “a control engineer looks at neural nets.” Both the questions addressed and the techniques employed will probably be new to most workers in the neural net area....

Dec 22 2014  
  Algorithmic reflections: selected works
Crandall R., PSIpress, Portland, OR, 2012. 410 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-935638-19-3)

Have you ever wondered how people compute numbers with many digits quickly and accurately? For example, how can they compute the googolth bit of the Erdős-Borwein constant?...

Apr 23 2014  
 
 
 
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