Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis
By (Author) Andrew W. Appel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
27th January 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of mathematics
Computer science
511.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
160
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
28g
Description
Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world--including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gode
Reviews
"This book presents the story of Turing's work at Princeton University and includes a facsimile of his doctoral dissertation, 'Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals,' which he completed in 1936. The author includes a detailed history of Turing's work in computer science and the attempts to ground the field in formal logic."--Mathematics Teacher "This book is not for the faint hearted, as with the great masters of painting it will insist that some thought goes into appreciating it... I love the book as a book. It is a collectors item and after all what better pursuit can one have than collecting books!"--Patrick Fogarty, Mathematics Today
Author Bio
Andrew W. Appel is the Eugene Higgins Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.
