The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine By Charles Petzold ISBN: 9780470229057 UPC: 884876369252 Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 384 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Wiley Description: Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be "computable," creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming. The book expands Turing's original 36-page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing's statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing's own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 2008022829

International Standard Book Number: 0470229055 (pbk.): 0470229055 : PAP: 9780470229057 (pbk.): 9780470229057 : PAP
   - Terms of availability: $29.99

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: QA267
   - Item number: .P48 2008

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 511.3/52

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Petzold, Charles,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1953-

Title Statement
   - Title: The annotated Turing :
   - Remainder of title: a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing machine /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Charles Petzold.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Indianapolis, IN :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Wiley Pub.,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2008.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xii, 372 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 23 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-365) and index.

Subject Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Turing, Alan Mathison,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1912-1954.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Computational complexity.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Turing machines.