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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
by Charles Petzold
Description: The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine provides a detailed examination of Alan Turing's 1936 work on computability, explaining the concepts and significance of the Turing machine
ISBN: 0470229055
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ketralnis · 2013-10-29 · Original thread
I read this for the first time in the excellent and surprisingly accessible The Annotated Turing[0], which I can highly recommend. If you're vaguely interested in things like proofs like these or about computability or just Turing's and others' contributions and approaches, the book approaches these things very well without presuming a deep pure mathematical background.

Seriously, read it.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Comp...

kqr2 · 2011-10-31 · Original thread
Another good book by Charles Petzold is The Annotated Turing.

http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Comp...