Once and Future Turing (eBook, PDF)

Computing the World
Redaktion: Cooper, S. Barry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Alan Turing (1912-1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding scientific thinkers take a fresh look at the great range of Turing's contributions, on how the subjects have developed since his time, and how they might develop still further. The contributors include Martin Davis, J. M. E. Hyland, Andrew R. Booker, Ueli Maurer, Kanti V. Mardia, S. Barry Cooper, Stephen Wolfram, Christof Teuscher, Douglas Richard Hofstadter, Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Ruth E. Baker, Richard Gordon, Stuart Kauffman, Scott Aaronson, Solomon Feferman, P. D. Welch and Roger Penrose. These specially commissioned essays will provoke and engross the reader who wishes to understand better the lasting significance of one of the twentieth century's deepest thinkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316589939
• Artikelnr.: 53012666

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Introduction S. Barry Cooper and Andrew Hodges; Part
I. Inside our Computable World, and the Mathematics of Universality: 1.
Algorithms, equations, and logic Martin Davis; 2. The forgotten Turing J.
M. E. Hyland; 3. Turing and the primes Andrew R. Booker; 4. Cryptography
and computation after Turing Ueli Maurer; 5. Alan Turing and enigmatic
statistics Kanti V. Mardia and S. Barry Cooper; Part II. The Computation of
Processes, and Not Computing the Brain: 6. What Alan Turing might have
discovered Stephen Wolfram; 7. Designed versus intrinsic computation
Christof Teuscher; 8. Dull rigid human meets ace mechanical translator
Douglas Richard Hofstadter; Part III. The Reverse Engineering Road to
Computing Life: 9. Turing's theory of developmental pattern formation
Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney and Ruth E. Baker;
10. Walking the tightrope: the dilemma of hierarchical instabilities in
Turing's morphogenesis Richard Gordon; Part IV. Biology, Mind, and the
Outer Reaches of Quantum Computation: 11. Answering Descartes: beyond
Turing Stuart Kauffman; 12. The ghost in the quantum Turing machine Scott
Aaronson; Part V. Oracles, Infinitary Computation, and the Physics of the
Mind: 13. Turing's 'oracle': from absolute to relative computability and
back Solomon Feferman; 14. Turing transcendent: beyond the event horizon P.
D. Welch; 15. On attempting to model the mathematical mind Roger Penrose;
Afterword S. Barry Cooper and Andrew Hodges.