The selected works of A.M. Turing : his work and impact /

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""The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.""--TIME In this accessible new selection of writings by Information Age pioneer Alan Turing, readers will find many of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, S. B. (S. Barry)
Otros Autores: Leeuwen, J. van (Jan)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, MA : Elsevier, ©2012.
Temas:
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954.
Turing, Alan Mathison, > 1912-1954.
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954
Mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Computer science > Mathematics.
Enigma cipher system.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathématiciens > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Informatique > Mathématiques.
Enigma (Machine à chiffrer)
Logique symbolique et mathématique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
Computer science > Mathematics
Enigma cipher system
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Mathematicians
Great Britain
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I How Do We Compute.
  • Note continued: Henri Berestycki on the visionary power of
  • Alan Turing and Reaction-Diffusion Equations
  • Hans Meinhardt focuses on
  • Travelling Waves and Oscillations Out of Phase: An Almost Forgotten Part of Turing's Paper
  • James D. Murray on what happened
  • After Turing
  • The Birth and Growth of Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Biology
  • Peter T. Saunders observes Alan Turing
  • Defeating the Argument from Design
  • Stephen Wolfram fills out the computational view of
  • The Mechanisms of Biology
  • K. Vela Velupillai connects
  • Four Traditions of Emergence: Morphogenesis, Ulam-von Neumann Cellular Automata, The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem, and British Emergentism
  • Gregory Chaitin takes the story forward
  • From Turing to Metabiology and Life as Evolving Software
  • 1954 The Morphogen Theory of Phyllotaxis
  • I. Geometrical and Descriptive Phyllotaxis
  • II. Chemical Theory of Morphogenesis
  • III.(Bernard Richards) A Solution of the Morphogenical Equations for the Case of Spherical Symmetry
  • (Prepared after December 1954 by N.E. Hoskin and B. Richards, using manuscripts of Turing and notes from his lectures in Manchester)
  • Bernard Richards recalls Alan Turing and
  • Radiolaria: The Result of Morphogenesis
  • The Morphogen Theory of Phyllotaxis
  • pt. I Geometrical and Descriptive Phyllotaxis
  • pt. II Chemical Theory of Morphogenesis
  • pt. III A Solution of the Morphogenetical Equations for the Case of Spherical Symmetry
  • Peter Saunders comments on the background to
  • Turing's Morphogen Theory of Phyllotaxis
  • Jonathan Swinton explores further
  • Turing, Morphogenesis, and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis: Life in Pictures
  • Aaron Sloman travels forward to
  • Virtual Machinery and Evolution of Mind (Part 3) Meta-Morphogenesis: Evolution of Information-Processing Machinery
  • Outline of the Development of the Daisy
  • (Prepared from Turing's notes by P.T. Saunders for the Collected Works and updated by J. Swinton)
  • Jonathan Swinton's updating of the texts
  • An Editorial Note
  • Outline of the Development of the Daisy.

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