Alan Turing

1912-1954 · Cambridge, Bletchley Park, Manchester · English mathematical logic & computer science

turing-machinehalting-problemcomputability

Primary works· 1

1936
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem· English

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