Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust

by Donald MacKenzie

Most aspects of our private and social lives - our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security - now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over the last half century from the perspectives of history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133938
• ISBN13: 9780262133937
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"