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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Turing Centenary Edition

Table of Contents

Leibniz’s Dream 
Boole Turns Logic into Algebra 
Frege: From Breakthrough to Despair 
Cantor: Detour through Infinity
Hilbert to the Rescue
Gödel Upsets the Applecart
Turing Conceives of the All-Purpose Computer 
Making the First Universal Computers
Beyond Leibniz’s Dream

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