TITLE

The Universal Turing Machine. A Half-Century Survey. 2nd Edition

AUTHOR(S) SURNAME, FORENAME

Herken, Rolf (Ed.)

Places & Countries of PUBLISHERS    YEAR
Publication

Vienna        Springer-Verlag    1995

PAGES    ISBN        BINDING    PRICE

xvi+607    3-211-82637-8    Pbk    

Our own definition of a computer is a device capable of computing. Computing is explained in a paper by A M Turing "On computable numbers..." published in 1936. Computability was demonstrated by what has come to be called a "Turing machine" from the 1936 paper. Our readers will realise the importance of 1986, when this book was conceived despite its recent publication (1994). The 2nd Edition contains corrections rather than revisions. Turing was a mathematician interested in the working of the brain. Much of the book is concerned with this interaction and is written at a lay readable level. An important book by many leading contributors.
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