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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232645301 Title: The annotated Turing : a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability Author: Charles Petzold Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780470229057 0470229055 OCLC:232645301

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The annotated Turing : a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability

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The annotated Turing : a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability

Author:	Charles Petzold
Publisher:	Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., 2008.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Before digital computers ever existed, Alan Turing envisioned their power and versatility. but also proved what computers could never do.
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Subjects	Turing, Alan, -- 1912-1954. Turing machines. Computational complexity. View all subjects
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Named Person:	Alan Turing; Alan Turing
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Charles Petzold Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780470229057 0470229055
OCLC Number:	232645301
Description:	pages cm
Contents:	Introduction. Part I: Foundations. Chapter 1: This Tomb Holds Diophantus. Chapter 2: The Irrational and the Transcendental. Chapter 3: Centuries of Progress. Part II: Computable Numbers. Chapter 4: The Education of Alan Turing. Chapter 5: Machines at Work. Chapter 6: Addition and Multiplication. Chapter 7: Also Known as Subroutines. Chapter 8: Everything Is a Number. Chapter 9: The Universal Machine. Chapter 10: Computers and Computability. Chapter 11: Of Machines and Men. Part III: Das Entscheidungsproblem. Chapter 12: Logic and Computability. Chapter 13: Computable Functions. Chapter 14: The Major Proof. Chapter 15: The Lambda Calculus. Chapter 16: Conceiving the Continuum. Part IV And Beyond. Chapter 17: Is Everything a Turing Machine? Chapter 18: The Long Sleep of Diophantus. Selected Bibliography. Index.
Responsibility:	Charles Petzold.

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