Annotated Turing A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

Name: Annotated Turing A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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ISBN: 9780470229057

ISBN-10: 0470229055

ISBN-13: 9780470229057

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles Petzold

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This book presents Turing's original 36-page paper and a follow-up 3-page correction with background chapters and extensive annotations. Mathematical papers like Turing's are often terse and cryptic. Petzold has elaborated on many of Turing's statements, clarified his discussions, and provided numerous examples. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing's own life: his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41. The book is divided into two main parts.…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.80" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Introduction



Foundations



This Tomb Holds Diophantus



The Irrational and the Transcendental



Centuries of Progress



Computable Numbers



The Education of Alan Turing



Machines at Work



Addition and Multiplication



Also Known as Subroutines



Everything Is a Number



The Universal Machine



Computers and Computability



Of Machines and Men



Das Entscheidungsproblem



Logic and Computability



Computable Functions



The Major Proof



The Lambda Calculus



Conceiving the Continuum



And Beyond



Is Everything a Turing Machine?



The Long Sleep of Diophantus


Selected Bibliography


Index