The MIT Press, Date: 2017-04-21. Paperback. Very Good. 0.7087 7.9528 5.2756. The MIT Press ISBN 0262533510 9780262533515 [US]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0262533510 9780262533515 [GB]

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Paperback / softback. New. Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. ISBN 0262533510 9780262533515 [GB]

ISBN10: 0262533510, ISBN13: 9780262533515, [publisher: The MIT Press 2017-04-21, Cambridge] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]

ISBN10: 0262533510, ISBN13: 9780262533515, [publisher: The MIT Press 2017-04-21, Cambridge] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]

ISBN10: 0262533510, ISBN13: 9780262533515, [publisher: MIT Press] Chris Bernhardt is Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University and the author of Turing s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science (MIT Press).An accessible and fascinating exploration of how Alan Turing&rsquos mathematical theory gave rise.
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ISBN10: 0262533510, ISBN13: 9780262533515, [publisher: MIT Press] Chris Bernhardt is Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University and the author of Turing s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science (MIT Press).An accessible and fascinating exploration of how Alan Turing&rsquos mathematical theory gave rise.
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ISBN10: 0262533510, ISBN13: 9780262533515, [publisher: MIT Press Ltd, Cambridge, Mass.] Softcover Paperback. Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader.In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the general reader. Bernhardt argues that the strength of Turing's theory is its simplicity, and that, explained in a straightforward manner, it is eminently understandable by the nonspecialist. As Marvin Minsky writes, "The sheer simplicity of the theory's foundation and extraordinary short path from this foundation to its logical and surprising conclusions give the theory a mathematical beauty that alone guarantees it a permanent place in computer theory." Bernhardt begins with the foundation and systematically builds to the surprising conclusions. He also views Turing's theory in the context of mathematical history, other views of computation (including those of Alonzo Church), Turing's later work, and the birth of the modern computer.In the paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the ...