Logic and Information

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Cambridge University Press, Sep 29, 1995 - Computers - 307 pages
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Intelligence can be characterized both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater of lesser degree, but the search for artificial intelligence has been hampered by the inability to wed the two characteristics in a happy marriage. In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Professor Keith Devlin argues that to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition we must broaden our concept of logic.
 

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Wonderful book.. Much, much simpler & clearer than Situations and Attitudes. I don't have time to write a thorough review but couldn't let this sit with a 1 star

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Keith Devlin
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Born in England in 1947 and living in America since 1987, Keith Devlin has written more than 20 books and numerous research articles on various elements of mathematics. From 1983 to 1989, he wrote a column on for the Manchester (England) Guardian. The collected columns are published in All the Math That's Fit to Print (1994) and cover a wide range of topics from calculating travel expenses to calculating pi. His book Logic and Information (1991) is an introduction to situation theory and situation semantics for mathematicians. Co-author of the PBS Nova episode "A Mathematical Mystery Tour," he is also the author of Devlin's Angle, a column on the Mathematical Association of America's electronic journal. Devlin lives in California, where he is dean of the school of science at Saint Mary's College in Morgana. He is currently studying the use of mathematics to analyze communication and information flow in the workplace.

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TitleLogic and Information
Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science
Logic and Information, Keith J. Devlin
AuthorKeith Devlin
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherCambridge University Press, 1995
ISBN0521499712, 9780521499712
Length307 pages
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Computers / Databases / General
Computers / Information Theory
Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Computers / Programming Languages / General
Mathematics / Reference
  
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