Perceptrons : an introduction to computational geometry / Marvin L. Minsky and Seymour A. Papert ; foreword by Léon Bottou.

"Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Léon Bottou."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.

Foreword / by Léon Bottou -- Prologue : a view from 1988 -- Introduction -- I. Algebraic theory of linear parallel predicates. Theory of linear Boolean inequalities -- Group invariance of Boolean inequalities -- Parity and one-in-a-box predicates -- The "and/or" theorem -- II. Geometric theory of linear inequalities. [Psi]connected : a geometric property with unbounded order -- Geometric patterns of small order : spectra and context -- Stratification and normalization -- The diameter-limited perception -- Geometric predicates and serial algorithms -- III. Learning theory. Magnitude of the coefficients -- Learning -- Linear separation and learning -- Perceptions and pattern recognition -- Epilogue : the new connectionism.