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Alan Turing : his work and impact / edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.
- Turing, Alan.
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Computer science--Mathematics.
- Computer science.
- Enigma cipher system.
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 914 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2013.
- Waltham, MA : Elsevier, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.""-TIME In this accessible new selection of writings by Information Age pioneer Alan Turing, readers will find many of the most significant contributions from the four-volume set of the Collected Works of A. M. Turing. These contributions, together with commentaries from current experts in a wide spectrum of fields and backgrounds, provide insight on the significance and contemporary impact of A.M. Turing's
- Contents:
- pt. 1. How do we compute? what can we prove?
- pt. 2. Hiding and unhiding information : cryptology, complexity and number theory
- pt. 3. Building a brain : intelligent machines, practice and theory
- pt. 4. The mathematics of emergence : the mysteries of morphogenesis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "A bibliography of publications of Alan Mathison Turing."-- p. 877.
- ISBN:
- 9781299386037
- 1299386032
- 9780123870124
- 0123870127
- OCLC:
- 846962066
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