Alan Turing: His Work and Impact [Hardcover]

S. Barry Cooper (Editor), J. van Leeuwen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2012 | ISBN-10: 0123869803 | ISBN-13: 978-0123869807 | Edition: 1

"The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine."  - Time

This new and exciting book, scheduled to publish for the 2012 centenary of Alan Turing's birth in London, includes a large number of the most significant contributions from the 4-volume set of the Collected Works of A. M. Turing.  These contributions, together with a wide spectrum of accompanying commentaries from current world-leading experts in many different fields and backgrounds, provide insight on the significance and contemporary impact of A.M. Turing's work.

Offering a more modern perspective than anything currently available, this unique work gives wide coverage of the many ways in which Turing's scientific endeavours have impacted current research and understanding of the world. It provides a great service to researchers, and at the same time is an approachable entry-point for the large number of people who have limited training in the science, but would like to learn more about the details of Turing's work.

Affordable, key collection of the most significant papers by A.M. Turing.

Commentary explaining the significance of each seminal paper by preeminent leaders in the field.

Additional resources available online.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1000 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier Science; 1 edition (April 15, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123869803
• ISBN-13: 978-0123869807
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Professor of Mathematical Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he obtained his doctorate on "Degrees of Unsolvability" from the University of Leicester, working with Reuben Louis Goodstein, and C. E. M. Yates at the University of Manchester. His research follows that of Alan Turing in its focus on the nature of mental and physical computation. It seeks to characterise the computational framework underlying emergence in nature and the causal structure of the real universe. Author and editor of numerous books, including Computability Theory, New Computational Paradigms, and Computability in Context, he is a leading advocate of multidisciplinary research at the interface between what is known to be computable, and theoretical and practical incomputability. He is chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, which coordinates the wide range of Turing Centenary activities, is president of the association Computability in Europe, which is responsible for the largest computability-themed international conference series, and chairs the Editorial Board of its Springer book series "Theory and Applications of Computability." He is an organizer of the 2012 Isaac Newton Institute programme "Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing" in Cambridge.