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The Universal Turing Machine A Half-Century Survey

By Andrew Hodges (auth.) , Rolf Herken (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Vienna
Year
1995
ISBN
978-3-211-82637-9, 978-3-7091-6597-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7091-6597-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (42202304 bytes)
Series
Computerkultur 2
Edition
2nd ed.
Pages
XVI, 611 pp. 29 figs.\610
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

Description

"On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”, Alan Turing’s paper of 1937, contained his thesis that every effective computation can be programmed on such an automation as that called Turing machine. Furthermore it proved the unsolvability of the halting problem and of the decision problem for first order logic, and it presented the invention of the universal Turing machine. It is that publication that will presumably be acknowledged as marking sub specie aeternitatis the beginning of the "computer age”. This volume recognizes the still continuing influence of the Turing machine concept by collecting contributions from international specialists in logic, computability, mathematics, biology, physics, linguistics, and cognitive science, thus signalling the exceptionally wide scope of that concept.

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