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

by Charles Petzold

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Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming.

The book expands Turing's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0470229055

ISBN13:9780470229057

Release Date:June 2008

Publisher:Wiley

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Artificial Intelligence Computer Science Computers Computers & Technology Human Vision & Language Systems Mathematics Science & Math Theory of Computing

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