Foreword
Preface (Richard Feynman)

1 Introduction to Computers

1.1 The File Clerk Model
1.2 Instruction Sets
1.3 Summary

2 Computer Organization

2.1 Gates and Combinational Logic
2.2 The Binary Decoder
2.3 More on Gates: Reversible Gates
2.4 Complete Sets of Operators
2.5 Flip-Flops and Computer Memory
2.6 Timing and Shift Registers

3 The Theory of Computation

3.1 Effective Procedures and Computability
3.2 Finite State Machines
3.3 The Limitations of Finite State Machines
3.4 Turing Machines
3.5 More on Turing Machines
3.6 Universal Turing Machines and the Halting Problem
3.7 Computability

4 Coding and Information Theory

4.1 Computing and Communication Theory
4.2 Error Detecting and Correcting Codes
4.3 Shannon’s Theorem
4.4 The Geometry of Message Space
4.5 Data Compression and Information
4.6 Information Theory
4.7 Further Coding Techniques
4.8 Analogue Signal Transmission

5 Reversible Computation and the Thermodynamics of Computing

5.1 The Physics of Information
5.2 Reversible Computation and the Thermodynamics of Computing
5.3 Computation: Energy Cost versus Speed
5.4 The General Reversible Computer
5.5 The Billiard Ball Computer
5.6 Quantum Computation

6 Quantum Mechanical Computers

6.1 Introduction
6.2 Computation with a Reversible Machine
6.3 A Quantum Mechanical Computer
6.4 Imperfections and Irreversible Free Energy Loss
6.5 Simplifying the Implementation
6.6 Conclusions
6.7 References