The Essential Turing
by Alan Mathison Turing, Jack Copeland · first published 2002
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"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and work on artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary that he can claim to be the founding father of these disciplines. In this book,
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…(yes, that Charles Petzold) which is a heavily annotated walkthrough of Turing's paper "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem"), and for the hardcore Turing fan, "The Essential Turing" by Jack Copeland.
on “The Genius of Turing” ↗…entitled "The Annotated Turing" (published by Wiley). And, for those wishing to go deeper, there's a nice collection of Turing's papers (this one included, naturally) by Jack Copeland, entitled "The Essential Turing" (published by Oxford).
on “Happy anniversary to Turing's seminal paper” ↗I read it in Copeland's "The Essential Turing", which I recommend highly.
on “Turing” ↗