Notes:Turing

Alan Turing, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"

available here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

secondary sources on Turing

Matthew Fuller (Media Ecologies, p.79): "In his paper “On Computable Numbers,” one of its originary descriptions, the computer came into being as a machine to trace the contours of the irrational. The universal machine’s purpose was to delineate what was beyond its capacity to grasp hold of in the axiomatic of logic and numbers, to map what was calculable and therefore find the edges of the incalculable. It is an immense numerical and combinatorial surging forth in search of the face of the unknown, a search we are still not done with." --eric s (talk) 10:18, 25 February 2015 (UTC)