Turing Machines and Church-Turing Thesis in Theory of Computation

A turing machine is a mathematical model of a computation that defines an abstract machine. In this article, we learn about Turing machines, how they are defined formally and informally, and the Church-Turing thesis.

Table of contents.Introduction.Formal and informal definitions.Multi-tape turing machines.Formal definition of multi-tape turing machines.The Church-Turing thesis.Summary.References.Prerequisites.Mathematical groundwork and proofsFinite Automata and Regular LanguagesCo...