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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452723403321

Titolo

Alan Turing [[electronic resource] ] : his work and impact / / edited by S. Barry Cooper and J. van Leeuwen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, 2013

ISBN

1-299-38603-2

0-12-387012-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (937 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooperS. B (S. Barry)

LeeuwenJ. van (Jan)

Disciplina

510.92

B

Soggetti

Mathematicians - Great Britain

Computer science - Mathematics

Enigma cipher system

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

""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