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On Computable Numbers and Computing Machinery

Alan Turing

1936 / 1950 · Computing · Computing

This paired entry brings together Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem and his 1950 essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence. The first paper attacks a precise mathematical problem: what does it mean for a number or function to be computable?

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