The Turing Guide

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

5. A century of Turing 43
   Stephen Wolfram


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


7. Hilbert and his famous problem 57
   Jack Copeland


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

PART III CODEBREAKER 77

9. At Bletchley Park 79
   Jack Copeland


10. The Enigma machine 85
    Joel Greenberg


11. Breaking machines with a pencil 97
    Mavis Batey