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Turing's legacy : developments from Turing's ideas in logic

Downey, R. G. (Rod G.), editor of compilation

Overview

\"Alan Turing was an inspirational figure who is now recognised as a genius of modern mathematics. In addition to leading the Allied forces' code-breaking effort at Bletchley Park in World War II, he proposed the theoretical foundations of modern computing and anticipated developments in areas from information theory to computer chess. His ideas have been extraordinarily influential in modern mathematics and this book traces such developments by bringing together essays by leading experts in logic, artificial intelligence, computability theory and related areas. Together, they give insight into this fascinating man, the development of modern logic, and the history of ideas. The articles within cover a diverse selection of topics, such as the development of formal proof, differing views on the Church-Turing thesis, the development of combinatorial group theory, and Turing's work on randomness which foresaw the ideas of algorithmic randomness that would emerge many years later\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954. / Computational complexity. / Machine theory. / MATHEMATICS / Logic.
• ISBN: 9781107043480, 1107043484

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QA267.7.T87 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE