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How do today's computers perform such a wide variety of tasks? Davis illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embodies concepts developed by logicians sugh as Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.

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马丁·戴维斯是计算机科学发展史上的先驱人物，其《可计算性与不可解性》一书被誉为计算机科学领域极少数真正的经典著作之一。他是纽约大学库朗数学科学研究所的荣誉退休教授，目前在加州大学伯克利分校做访问学者。