Books

Short works

Books : reviews

Andrew Hodges.
Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence.
Unwin. 1983

S. Barry Cooper, Andrew Hodges, eds.
The Once and Future Turing: computing the world.
CUP. 2016

Alan Turing (l9l2–l954) 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.

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.

Contents

Martin Davis. Algorithms, equations, and logic. 2016
J. M. E. Hyland. The forgotten Turing. 2016
Andrew R. Booker. Turing and the primes. 2016
Ueli Maurer. Cryptography and computation after Turing. 2016
Kanti V. Mardia, S. Barry Cooper. Alan Turing and enigmatic statistics. 2016
Stephen Wolfram. What Alan Turing might have discovered. 2016
Christof Teuscher. Designed versus intrinsic computation. 2016
Douglas R. Hofstadter. Dull Rigid Human meets Ace Mechanical Translator. 2016
Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Ruth E. Baker. Turing's theory of developmental pattern formation. 2016
Richard Gordon. Walking the tightrope: the dilemma of hierarchical instabilities in Turing's morphogenesis. 2016
Stuart A. Kauffman. Answering Descartes: beyond Turing. 2016
Scott Aaronson. The ghost in the quantum Turing machine. 2016
Solomon Feferman. Turing's 'oracle': from absolute to relative computability and back. 2016
P. D. Welch. Turing transcendent: beyond the event horizon. 2016
Roger Penrose. On attempting to model the mathematical mind. 2016