Alan Turing's Systems of Logic

This book presents a facsimile of the original typescript of Turing's fascinating and influential 1938 Princeton PhD thesis, one of the key documents in the history of mathematics and computer science. The book also features essays by Andrew Appel and Solomon Feferman that explain the still-unfolding significance of the ideas Turing developed at Princeton.

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About the author

Andrew W. Appel is the Eugene Higgins Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.

Summary

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

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"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

Report

"For me, this is the most interesting of Alan Turing's writings, and it is a real delight to see a facsimile of the original typescript here. The work is packed with ideas that have turned out to be significant for all sorts of current research areas in computer science and mathematics." - Barry Cooper, University of Leeds

Product details

• Authors: Andrew W Appel, Andrew W. Appel, Alan Mathison Turing
• Assisted by: Andrew Appel (Editor), Andrew W Appel (Editor), Andrew W. Appel (Editor), Andrew W. Appel (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2014
• EAN: 9780691164731
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16473-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, MATHEMATICS / Logic, computer science, History of mathematics, Mathematical logic