Leçons sur l'informatique

by Richard P. Feynman, Céline Laroche (Traduction)

Richard Feynman était un calculateur prodige. Dans le Projet Manhattan, il fut chargé du calcul à la main de l’énergie libérée par l’explosion d’une bombe atomique. Il connaissait mieux que personne les possibilités et les limites du calcul électronique.

Dans ces leçons, il expose les bases de l’informatique : les machines de Türing, l’architecture des ordinateurs, la théorie du calcul informatique, la théorie du codage et de l’information. Il livre aussi ses réflexions sur les relations profondes entre physique et informatique : thermodynamique, ordinateurs quantiques et physique des semi-conducteurs.

On retrouve ici avec délectation le style brillant et humoristique de Feynman.

Richard Feynman, prix Nobel de physique en 1965, était professeur de physique théorique au California Institute of Technology. Les éditions Odile Jacob ont notamment publié ses célèbres Leçons sur la physique et ses Leçons sur la gravitation.

401 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 21, 2006

About the author

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly known scientists in the world.

He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale). He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at Caltech.

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