Description
From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing.
Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the philosophy of the mind. Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work during the war, and by practical pioneering of the first electronic computers, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence. Andrew Hodges gives a fresh analysis of Turing's work, relating it to his extraordinary life.Author: Andrew Hodges
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781474616782
ISBN10: 147461678X
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Individual Philosophers
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
About the Author
Andrew Hodges is Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.