Less is more in the fifties: encounters between logical minimalism and computer design during the fifties.

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Liesbeth De Mol, « Less is more in the fifties: encounters between logical minimalism and computer design during the fifties. », PROGRAMme, ID : 10670/1.d0dupm


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What is the actual effect of advances in mathematical logic from the 1920s and 1930s on the field of computing? A lot has been written and more has been said already of the supposed theoretical foundations of computing and its roots in the logical work of people like Church and Turing. While it is clear that there are important connections, both historically as well as epistemologically, between these developments, it has been shown before that this should not mean that there is a clear one-d...

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