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

• Autore: Cooper S. B (S. Barry)
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, 2013; Waltham, MA : , : Elsevier, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 914 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 510.92; B
• Soggetto topico: Mathematicians - Great Britain; Computer science - Mathematics; Enigma cipher system; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Persona (resp. second.): CooperS. B (S. Barry); LeeuwenJ. van (Jan)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Alan Turing
• ISBN: 1-299-38603-2; 0-12-387012-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779414203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II