ENGLISH

Brains, machines, and mathematics

By Michael A. Arbib

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1987
ISBN
0387965394, 9780387965390
LCC
Q310 .A7 1987
Open Library ID
OL2381174M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2225879 bytes)
Edition
2nd ed
Pages
217\217
Library
kolxoz
DPI
600
Time added
2009-12-04 00:34:26

Description

Traces the relationship between the development of computing machines and our knowledge of brain functioning, and introduces corresponding mathematical models designed to describe this relationship. Begins with a historical overview tracing the rise of cybernetics to the current interchange of ideas between AI and brain theory. Subsequent chapters introduce neural sets and finite automata, the crucial cybernetic concepts of feedback and realization, pattern recognition networks, "semi-neural" learning networks, capabilities of Turing machines and automata which construct as well as compute. The final chapter presents two accessible proofs of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

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