The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

Book Overview

Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming.

The book expands Turing's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470229055
• ISBN13: 9780470229057
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"