The Great Philosophers: Turing
$19.57
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2021
Summary
The Enigma of Thought: Alan Turing’s Legacy
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 practic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474616782 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 147461678X |
| Series: | GREAT PHILOSOPHERS |
| Author: | Andrew Hodges |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 110mm x 10mm |
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The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance
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Andrew Hodges
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.
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