PdF:MA0016 Computers as math. machines

MA0016 Computers as mathematical machines

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Helena Durnová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Timetable of Seminar Groups

MA0016/01: Wed 17:00–18:50 kancelář vyučujícího, H. Durnová

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

Students will learn about personalities and milestones in the history of computing and programming, especially in connection with mathematics.

Learning outcomes

Students will be acquainted with the predecessors of today's IT.

Syllabus

First computers: Pascal, Schickard Charles Babbage and his difference and analytical engine Konrad Zuse.John von Neumann. Alan Turing and artificial intelligence. Proofs with the aid of computers. Mathematical machines in Czechoslovakia (SAPO, EPOS) First programming languages: why they were developed

Literature

recommended literature

Švelch, Jaroslav. Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games. MIT Press, 2018.
The origins of digital computers : selected papers. Edited by Brian Randell. 3rd ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1982, 580 s. ISBN 3540113193. info

Teaching methods

Seminars with active participation of the students (home reading).

Assessment methods

Final essay.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.