Library SARC Research Person
Alan Turing
Mathematician and father of theoretical computer science.
Alan Turing (1912-1954) was not only a profoundly influential figure in the development of theoretical computer science, but a central figure in the formalization of procedure, machine intelligence, morphogenesis, and the relation between discrete rules and emergent form.
Works in the Library
Alan Turing PAPER 1936
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing's 1936 paper defining the Turing machine and the limits of mechanical computation.
COMPUTATION NUMBER
Alan Turing PAPER 1952
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
Turing's 1952 paper proposing reaction–diffusion systems as the origin of biological pattern.
MORPHOGENESIS FORM DYNAMICS
Alan Turing CONCEPT
An abstract model of computation — an infinite tape, a read/write head, and a finite table of rules — that defines what it means for a function to be computable at all.
COMPUTATION MEMORY
