Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust
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 and sociology.\ His discussion draws on the...
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A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.
Acknowledgments1Knowing Computers12Boardwalks across the Tar Pit233Artificial Mathematicians?634Eden Defiled1015Covert Channels1516Social Processes and Category Mistakes1977Clocks and Chips2198Logics, Machines, and Trust2579Machines, Proofs, and Cultures299Notes335Index419
