Directory: Science: Math: Logic and Foundations: History: People: Turing, Alan Mathison (15)
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) - British mathematician, cryptographer, and one of the key inventors of the modern computer. After his profound contributions to helping win World War II, he was persecuted for his homosexuality by his own government, and driven to suicide. Maintained by Turing biographer Andrew Hodges: extensive resources and links, online versions of several long essays on Turing.The Church-Turing Thesis - Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Alan Mathison Turing - Undergraduate biographical essay by John M. Kowalik.
Alan Turing - Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
Turing Digital Archive - Digital archive of items relating to Alan Turing.
Alan Turing - Biographical entry in the FOLDOC.
Turing Machine - Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Alan Turing Archive - Archive and historical records pertaining to the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing.
On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem - Turing's paper which discusses the halting problem in the context of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. HTML.
Wired Archive: Alan Turing - Stories involving Turing.
Alan Turing: The Biography Project - Biography, bibliography and links.
Alan M. Turing - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Andrew Hodges.
Alan Turing Papers - Collection record of Turings papers at Kings College, Cambridge.
Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers - Profile of the groundbreaking Cambridge mathematician. [BusinessWeek]
Alan Turing - Encyclopedia biography from Wikipedia.
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