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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779414203321

Autore

Cooper S. B (S. Barry)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, 2013

Waltham, MA : , : Elsevier, , 2013

ISBN

1-299-38603-2

0-12-387012-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 914 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

510.92

B

Soggetti

Mathematicians - Great Britain

Computer science - Mathematics

Enigma cipher system

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A bibliography of publications of Alan Mathison Turing."-- p. 877.

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