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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 March 2026
      02 April 2026
      ISBN:
      9781009719841
      9781009719858
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009719841
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.772kg, 332 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Logic, Categories and Sets, Computer Science, Distributed, Networked and Mobile Computing

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    Turing Award-winner Leslie Lamport shares the key lessons he has learned about concurrent and distributed computing over decades of writing and reasoning about their algorithms. Algorithms are not programs, and they shouldn't be written in a programming language. Instead, this book explores how to write them and reason about them by using mathematics. It explains the principles underlying abstract programs and understanding those principles helps to avoid concurrency errors. Designing an abstract program before writing any code can lead to better, more reliable programs. The book has very few mathematical prerequisites, with an appendix summarizing the necessary knowledge. Many of the examples are available online, written in the formal language TLA+, and can be checked with the TLA+ tools. This is a fascinating read for any graduate students and researchers in theoretical computer science, concurrency, and distributed systems.

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