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   Kurt Gödel and the foundations of mathematics: horizons of truth
Baaz M., Papadimitriou C., Scott D., Putnam H., Harper C., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2011. 544 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-521761-44-4)

This is a collection of 21 expanded contributions to Gödel’s centenary celebration at the University of Vienna, in 2006. Takeuti, former president of the Kurt Gödel Society, writes in the foreword: ̶...
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May 1 2012  
  Algorithms
Dasgupta S., Papadimitriou C., Vazirani U., McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, Columbus, OH, 2006. 336 pp.  Type: Book (9780073523408)

In today’s world, computers are ubiquitous, finding a place in almost all spheres of everyday human life. The primary task of computers is to execute programs and produce some meaningful and useful output. For these progr...
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Mar 9 2007  
  Turing (a novel about computation)
Papadimitriou C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 283 pp.  Type: Book (9780262661911), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Let me get the storyline of this book out of the way quickly, so that we can get to the stronger parts of this “novel.” Girl meets boy, falls in love (?), has sex, runs away back to her true lover, her true lover di...
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Sep 29 2006  
  Turing (a novel about computation)
Papadimitriou C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 283 pp.  Type: Book (9780262661911), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Reviewing a piece of fiction means satisfying a different set of requirements than what would be expected from a review of an academic text. For one, it is essential that I do not reveal the whole plot by providing a chapter-by-chapter...
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Sep 26 2005  
  Turing (a novel about computation)
Papadimitriou C., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003.  Type: Book (9780262162180)

On one hand, this is a novel about romance: Alexandros meets Ethel on a sunny Greek Isle, loses her, she takes up with another, and, well, I dont want to give away all of the plot. On the other hand, this is a textbook about computatio...
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Feb 4 2004  

 
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