Computability – Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond: Turing, Godel, Church, and Beyond - Hardcover

Copeland, B. Jack; Posy, Carl J.; Shagrir, Oron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262018993 ISBN 13: 9780262018999

Publisher: MIT Press, 2013

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Computability In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Godel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, algorithmic computability, was the culmination of intensive investigations into the foundations of mathematics. In the decades since, the theory of computability has moved to the cent... Full description

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About the Author:

B. Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. Carl J. Posy is Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Centers for the Study of Rationality and for Language, Logic, and Cognition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Oron Shagrir is Professor of Philosophy and Former Chair of the Cognitive Science Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the vice rector of the Hebrew University.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0262018993
• ISBN 13: 9780262018999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376