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UNINA9910823942503321 |
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Autore |
Cooper S. B (S. Barry) |
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Titolo |
Alan Turing : his work and impact / / edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen |
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Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, 2013 |
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Waltham, MA : , : Elsevier, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-38603-2 |
0-12-387012-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 914 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mathematicians - Great Britain |
Computer science - Mathematics |
Enigma cipher system |
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A bibliography of publications of Alan Mathison Turing."-- p. 877. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""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 |
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