On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem

by Alan Mathison Turing

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First edition

London: C.F. Hodgson and Son, 1936-1937. First edition, journal issue, of the founding paper of the modern science of computing — the paper in which the twenty-two-year-old Alan Turing, setting out to settle an abstract question in mathematical logic, instead defined the machine the rest of the century would build. To decide whether a mechanical procedure could in principle determine the truth of any mathematical

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