The New Turing Omnibus：Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science

Noothervolumeprovidesasbroad，asthorough，orasaccessibleanintroductiontotherealmofcomputersasA.K.Dewdney's"TheTuringOmnibus."Updatedandexpanded，"TheTuringOmnibus"offers66concise，brilliantlywrittenarticlesonthemajorpointsofinterestincomputersciencetheory，technology，andapplications.Newforthistour：updatedinformationonalgorithms，detectingprimes，noncomputablefunctions，andself-replicatingcomputers--pluscompletelynewsectionsontheMandelbrotset，geneticalgorithms，theNewton-RaphsonMethod，neuralnetworksthatlearn，DOSsystemsforpersonalcomputers，andcomputerviruses.