When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Several Alan Turing papers, including "On Computable Numbers," are going to auction in June. | ...

To any outsider it was an unlikely place, but the modern era of computers began on May 28, 1936, when the editors of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society received a paper with the rather ...

Charles Petzold's book The Annotated Turing, which covers Turing's 1936 paper on computable numbers and much of the background material needed to understand it, is more than decent. As a result, I was ...

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I was recently in Cambridge—not the big one with Harvard and MIT and all that, but the small market town in England. It would be an unvisited East Anglian backwater today if a few scholars had not ...