The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, an...
The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, an...
The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus, the secrets of Enigma/ edited by B. Jack Copeland.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N510.92/13
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English
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613 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Alan Turing 1912-1954 / Jack Copeland -- Computable numbers : a guide / 1. On computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem (1936) -- 2. On computable numbers : corrections and critiques / Alan Turing, Emil Post and Donald W. Davies -- 3. Systems of logic based on ordinals (193...
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004.
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England
Date Published
2004.
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"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to d...
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The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus, the secrets of Enigma/ edited by B. Jack Copeland.
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Editor is on the academic staff of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N510.92/13
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0198250797 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780198250807 (pbk.)
0198250800 (pbk.)
9780198250791 (hbk.)
0198250797 (hbk.)
9780198250791 (hc. : alk. paper)
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004
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510.92
006.3092
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