English

The Algebraic View of Computation

Logic in Computer Science 2018-06-11 v1

Abstract

We argue that computation is an abstract algebraic concept, and a computer is a result of a morphism (a structure preserving map) from a finite universal semigroup.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.09404,
  title  = {The Algebraic View of Computation},
  author = {Attila Egri-Nagy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09404},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

13 pages, final version will be published elsewhere

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