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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
ISBN: 978-0-470-22905-7
Paperback
384 pages
June 2008
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Introduction.

Part I: Foundations.

Chapter 1: This Tomb Holds Diophantus.

Chapter 2: The Irrational and the Transcendental.

Chapter 3: Centuries of Progress.

Part II: Computable Numbers.

Chapter 4: The Education of Alan Turing.

Chapter 5: Machines at Work.

Chapter 6: Addition and Multiplication.

Chapter 7: Also Known as Subroutines.

Chapter 8: Everything Is a Number.

Chapter 9: The Universal Machine.

Chapter 10: Computers and Computability.

Chapter 11: Of Machines and Men.

Part III: Das Entscheidungsproblem.

Chapter 12: Logic and Computability.

Chapter 13: Computable Functions.

Chapter 14: The Major Proof.

Chapter 15: The Lambda Calculus.

Chapter 16: Conceiving the Continuum.

Part IV And Beyond.

Chapter 17: Is Everything a Turing Machine?

Chapter 18: The Long Sleep of Diophantus.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.