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The annotated Turing : a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing machine / Charles Petzold

By: Publication details: Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2008.Description: xii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780470229057 (Paper)
  • 0470229055 (Paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 511.352
LOC classification:
  • QA267
Contents:
Foreword.Preface.Acknowledgements.Author Biographies.Introduction.1. This Tomb Holds Diophantus.2. The Irrational and the Transcendental.3. Centuries of Progress.4. The Education of Alan Turing.5. Machines at Work.6. Addition and Multiplication.7. Also Known as Subroutines.8. Everything is a Number.9. The Universal Machine.10. Computers and Computability.11. Of Machines and Men.12. First-Order Logic.13. Computability Continued.14. The Major Proof.15. The Lambda Calculus.16. Conceiving the Continuum.17. Is Everything a Turing Machine?18. Diaphantus Awakes.Appendix A.Appendix B.Index.
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Foreword.Preface.Acknowledgements.Author Biographies.Introduction.1. This Tomb Holds Diophantus.2. The Irrational and the Transcendental.3. Centuries of Progress.4. The Education of Alan Turing.5. Machines at Work.6. Addition and Multiplication.7. Also Known as Subroutines.8. Everything is a Number.9. The Universal Machine.10. Computers and Computability.11. Of Machines and Men.12. First-Order Logic.13. Computability Continued.14. The Major Proof.15. The Lambda Calculus.16. Conceiving the Continuum.17. Is Everything a Turing Machine?18. Diaphantus Awakes.Appendix A.Appendix B.Index.

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