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The Annotated Turing
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Description| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc (US) |
| Author(s) | Charles Petzold |
| Subtitle | A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine |
| Edition | 1 |
| Published | 30th May 2008 |
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A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of theextraordinary 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 original 36-page paper with
additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the
author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing?s
statements, making the original difficult-to-read document
accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors,
math geeks, and others.
Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of
Turing?s own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, 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.
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