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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
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“Thus, 1 is actually a function with the two bound variables f and x. Just offhand, those two variables seem like two more variables than are needed to define a simple number.”
Charles Petzold, The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
“In 1914 the German government
asked prominent scientists and artists to sign a declaration refuting the "lies and
slanders of the enemy". Hilbert could not determine whether these statements
made about Germany were true (a rather political Entscheidung problem), so he
refused to sign.”
Charles Petzold, The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine