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We add some new insights, and thus hopefully contribute to give new impetus, to an old theme: constructive mathematics, and topology in particular, can be thought of as an abstract way to deal with computation.
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Sambin, G. (2007). Doing Without Turing Machines: Constructivism and Formal Topology. In: Cooper, S.B., Löwe, B., Sorbi, A. (eds) Computation and Logic in the Real World. CiE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73001-9_71
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