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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (original: 1937; edição: 2008)

de Charles Petzold (Autor)

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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. - Publisher.… (mais)
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Título:The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
Autores:Charles Petzold (Autor)
Informação:Wiley (2008), Edition: 1, 384 pages
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I found this book to be the most enjoyable way to read a scientific paper ever. The way the book is structured is just excellent: Historical context provided but optional, scary maths not simplified but explained and also optional. On top of that, the writing is very accessible and nice to read.

The only problem I had in reading this was not so much to do with Petzold (or Turing) but with the logical syntax and the way it is presented. There is such a sheer amount of symbols in this paper that even to someone used to the syntax, the formulas towards the end of the paper become borderline unreadable without a legend. The finishing touch to this book would be to provide some sort of system that would make this more "reading-material" than "study-material".

Nevertheless, this was an exellent book and I think this kind of text is how fundamental research should be presented much more often. ( )
  bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 |
I have admired and read about Alan Turings work for a long time, but never did any work of fiction or non-fiction get me this close to the actual genius of the man. Where his work on the "Turing test" lends itself to simplification and amateur philosophy, this older work on "Computable Numbers" is much harder to grasp and shows much more clearly how Turing saw the wealth of applications of automatic computing that lay ahead. And it also show how far away that future still was.
Enters Petzold. The man whose super-powers lie in explaining something really difficult to normal, intelligent people. I do not think anyone else could have done this for me: taking me by the hand and step-by-step gently introducing all of the concepts up to the point where you actually, completely and to the bootom understand the subject. He did it in Code, and het did it again for me in The Annotated Turing. Loved it. ( )
  teunduynstee | Jan 5, 2020 |
I don't consider myself dumb, but Turing's paper is something that I would never have adequately grasped without the help of an author much more dedicated than me. I found the annotations essential for understanding and for forming the connections to the history and mathematical theory that makes Turing's paper tick. I loved this book, its originality, and it's mind-broadening ability. The connection of Turing's conclusion to the diagonal argument is something I hadn't appreciated until reading this book -- brilliant. ( )
  danrk | Jul 9, 2015 |
An engaging and accessible tour (though a bit pedantic at times) through Alan Turing's original paper defining the Turing Machine. http://www.mathlesstraveled.com/?p=234 ( )
  byorgey | Nov 2, 2009 |
Loved it. A wonderful treatment of a ground breaking piece of mathematics. Mr. Petzold does a great job of walking you through the tough parts of Turing's paper with understandable examples. I felt the last two chapters were a bit rambling and could have used some more structure but they still presented some interesting ideas.
  jcopenha | Jul 11, 2008 |
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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. - Publisher.

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