The Incomputable Alan Turing [article]

S. Barry Cooper
2012 arXiv   pre-print
The last century saw dramatic challenges to the Laplacian predictability which had underpinned scientific research for around 300 years. Basic to this was Alan Turing's 1936 discovery (along with Alonzo Church) of the existence of unsolvable problems. This paper focuses on incomputability as a powerful theme in Turing's work and personal life, and examines its role in his evolving concept of machine intelligence. It also traces some of the ways in which important new developments are anticipated by Turing's ideas in logic.
arXiv:1206.1706v1 fatcat:vq6gvxyl3fgotajuxsbna4ozgm