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Cargando... The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (1937)por Charles Petzold
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 |   Enters Petzold. The man whose super-powers lie in explaining something really difficult to normal, intelligent people. I do not think anyone else could have done this for me: taking me by the hand and step-by-step gently introducing all of the concepts up to the point where you actually, completely and to the bootom understand the subject. He did it in Code, and het did it again for me in The Annotated Turing. Loved it. (  ) teunduynstee | Jan 5, 2020 | ) danrk | Jul 9, 2015 |  ) byorgey | Nov 2, 2009 | jcopenha | Jul 11, 2008 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming. The book expands Turing's original 36-page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing's statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing's own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41. - Publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The only problem I had in reading this was not so much to do with Petzold (or Turing) but with the logical syntax and the way it is presented. There is such a sheer amount of symbols in this paper that even to someone used to the syntax, the formulas towards the end of the paper become borderline unreadable without a legend. The finishing touch to this book would be to provide some sort of system that would make this more "reading-material" than "study-material".
Nevertheless, this was an exellent book and I think this kind of text is how fundamental research should be presented much more often. (