Great Philosophers: Turing
Alan Turing''s 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind.
Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical p...
Alan Turing''s 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind.
Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical p...
