Tag: David Hilbert
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More on Hilbert’s tenth problem
One of the best things about WordPress.com is that it gives me, as a blog author, the opportunity to link in other relevant stories and so it was with my last post on diaphantine sets and the integers. The top linked item there gives a lot more on David Hilbert‘s “tenth problem” – which was…
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Second-hand maths and computing books
I am nominally on holiday at the moment – though at times it doesn’t feel like it with the millstone of the MSc project report round my neck (one month till deadline today). But the weather is good – I am typing this outside in the Sun – and the setting is lovely (Hay-on-Wye in…
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The importance of Turing’s findings
Yesterday I was speaking to a friend – who knows about computers but not about computer science – who told me this blog was just too difficult: so I thought I’d seek to order my own thoughts after reading The Annotated Turing and assist humanity in general (!) by writing a piece that explains what…
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Even more confused
Still on The Annotated Turing: and now (I am up to page 260) I have to admit I am finding the maths part quite hard going, though I guess there is no particular shame in that – after all this was the very bleeding edge of the discipline 70 years ago. Well, yesterday I pointed…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 