The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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.