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A fascinating account of Alan Turing's epic research paper, which kicked off the entire computer revolution. I'm particularly impressed by the amount of detail the author includes while keeping everything simple, transparent, and a pleasure to read. -- Ian Stewart, author of In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World This is a delightful introduction for the lay reader to the ideas surrounding Alan Turing's great paper of 1936. -- Scott Aaronson, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Over the past several decades, Alan Turing, known as the father of computer science, has become an intellectual and cultural icon. Chris Bernhardt has written a very clear and accessible book that explains Turing's work, showing how his ideas have developed into some of the most important ideas in computer science today. -- Noson S. Yanofsky, author of The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us The dazzling array of computer applications, from desktop to cell phone, has obscured the play of ideas that first set our modern era in motion. In this account, Bernhardt reveals the crucial contribution to these developments made by Alan Turing and other early computer scientists. A marvelous book. -- A. K. Dewdney, Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

About the Author

Chris Bernhardt is Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University and the author of Turing's Vision- The Birth of Computer Science (MIT Press).