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“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” is a hugely important work, and Petzold's book "The Annotated Turing" makes it very acc
by mabbo 12y ago
“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” is a hugely important work, and Petzold's book "The Annotated Turing" makes it very accessible. I highly recommend anyone who is interested pick up a copy. High school education is all that's really needed.
Turing was decades ahead of the rest of us. It's a shame that we're portraying him so inaccurately (though really, not nearly as shameful as how we treated him when he lived).
- termain 12y ago"Turing was decades ahead of the rest of us." That seems unfair to Alonzo Church.
- peterfirefly 12y agoAnd Emil Post.
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoWell, if you consider the bewildering paradigm fracture, of cataclysmic proportions, that has occurred around that time in all fields of intellectual work (quantum mechanics, relativity, cubism, dadaism, modernism and the beginnings of post-modernism, James Joyce, Kurt Godel, etc., etc.) - the whole early 20th century was decades ahead of the rest of us, to say the least.