Turing's vision : (Record no. 39725)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780262034548 |
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| Qualifying information | electronic |
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| Classification number | 510.92 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bernhardt, Chris, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Turing's vision : |
| Remainder of title | the birth of computer science / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Chris Bernhardt. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | The birth of computer science |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; |
| -- | London, England : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | The MIT Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2016] |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | IEEE Xplore, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2016] |
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| Extent | 1 PDF (208 pages). |
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| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Terms governing access | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 Entscheidungsproblem," Turing thinks carefully about how humans perform computation, breaking it down into a sequence of steps, and then constructs theoretical machines capable of performing each step. Turing wanted to show that there were problems that were beyond any computer's ability to solve; in particular, he wanted to find a decision problem that he could prove was undecidable. To explain Turing's ideas, Bernhardt examines three well-known decision problems to explore the concept of undecidability; investigates theoretical computing machines, including Turing machines; explains universal machines; and proves that certain problems are undecidable, including Turing's problem concerning computable numbers. |
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| System details note | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Source of description note | Description based on PDF viewed 01/18/2017. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Turing, Alan Mathison, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1912-1954. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer algorithms |
| General subdivision | History. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mathematicians |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer engineering |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | IEEE Xplore (Online Service), |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | MIT Press, |
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| Materials specified | Abstract with links to resource |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7580019 |
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