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Alan Turing : his work and impact / edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cooper, S. B. (S. Barry), editor.
Leeuwen, J. van (Jan), editor.
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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