Alan Turing and the Foundation of Computer Science

Juraj Hromkovič ()
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Juraj Hromkovič: ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science

A chapter in Turing’s Revolution, 2015, pp 273-281 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The goal of this article is to explain to non-specialists what computer science is about and what is the contribution of Alan Turing to general science. To do this well-understandable for everybody, we introduce mathematics as a language describing objects and relations between objects in an exact and unambiguously interpretable way, and as a language of correct, well-verifiable reasoning. Starting with the dream of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who wanted to automatize some part of the work of mathematicians including also reasoning, we finish with Alan Turing’s exact axiomatic definition of the limits of automation of the intellectual work, i.e., with the birth date of computer science.

Keywords: Models of computation; Philosophy of mathematics; Turing machines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22156-4_10

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