Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262533510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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I'm particularly impressed by the amount of detail the author includes while keeping everything simple, transparent, and a pleasure to read. A fascinating account of Alan Turing's epic research paper, which kicked off the entire computer revolution. In this account, Bernhardt reveals the crucial contribution to these developments made by Alan Turing and other early computer scientists. K. Yanofsky, author of The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us)The dazzling array of computer applications, from desktop to cell phone, has obscured the play of ideas that first set our modern era in motion. (A. (Scott Aaronson, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
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. 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 Entscheidungsproblem," Turing thinks carefully about how humans perform computation
Chris Bernhardt is Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University.
Jeremy Roach said Delightful little book. The best thing about this book is it will leave you hungering for more details from e.g. Martin Davis' Computability and Unsolvability.A Turing Machine in this book is described differently from what you'd find in Charles Petzold's The Annotated Turing. Instead of being in tabular form it's described by a "state diagram." These diagrams are introduced to describe finite automata, and a Turing Machine is presented as a finite automaton with additional capabilities. So in addition to accepting and non-accepting states t. "What an outstanding, ground-up view of the technology and" according to John Kirk. What an outstanding, ground-up view of the technology and thinking that informs an increasing amount of how and what tools we use virtually every day to make decisions and, well, live.