The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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Main Ideas
- Exploration of Alan Turing's work «On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem» and its influence on the development of computer science.
- The concept of the Turing machine as an abstract model of computation and its role in shaping theoretical computer science.
- Analysis of the concept of computability and its limits, including the halting problem.
- Historical context and development of ideas related to the formalization of algorithms and computation.
- The impact of Turing's work on the development of modern computers and programming.
- Detailed commentary and explanation of the complex mathematical and logical concepts presented in Turing's original work.
Date of publication: 28 February 2025
———The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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Genre: Popular science literature