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Turing and the Universal Machine Icon Science

Author	: Jon Agar
File Size	: 42,8 Mb
Publisher	: Icon Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 September 2017
ISBN	: 9781785782534
Pages	: 134 pages

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Turing and the Universal Machine Icon Science by Jon Agar Book PDF Summary

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.

Turing and the Universal Machine Icon Science by Jon Agar

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Turing and the Universal Machine by Jon Agar

Alan Turning is widely known as the cryptographer extraordinaire of Bletchly Park, the man who broke the Nazi Enigma code. He has also been described as the father of the modern computer, dreaming of a machine that could think adn inaugurating a scientific revolution that we are deep in the

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Turing s Vision by Chris Bernhardt

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The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability

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