The Turing Guide

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CONTENTS

PART I BIOGRAPHY 1



  1. Life and work 3
    Jack Copeland and Jonathan Bowen

  2. The man with the terrible trousers 19
    Sir John Dermot Turing

  3. Meeting a genius 31
    Peter Hilton

  4. Crime and punishment 35
    Jack Copeland


PART II THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE AND BEYOND 41



  1. A century of Turing 43
    Stephen Wolfram

  2. Turing’s great invention: the universal computing machine 49
    Jack Copeland

  3. Hilbert and his famous problem 57
    Jack Copeland

  4. Turing and the origins of digital computers 67
    Brian Randell


PART III CODEBREAKER 77



  1. At Bletchley Park 79
    Jack Copeland

  2. The Enigma machine 85
    Joel Greenberg

  3. Breaking machines with a pencil 97
    Mavis Batey

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