Paperback, 372 pages
English language
Published May 18, 2008 by Wiley.
The Annotated Turing
A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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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.
Subjects
- General Theory of Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computers
- Computers - General Information
- Computer Books: General
- Computer Science
- Computers / Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence - General
- Logic