Andrew Hodges Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Andrew Hodges is een Britse wiskundige en auteur die zich sinds de vroege jaren '70 richt op de twistor-theorie. Deze benadering van fundamentele natuurkundige problemen werd gepionierd door Roger Penrose. Hodges is wiskundedocent aan de Universiteit van Oxford, waar hij zich verdiept in complexe wiskundige concepten en hun verbinding met de fysica.
The Great Philosophers: Turing
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Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind. Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical pioneering of the first electronic computers, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis, made famous by the wit and drama of the Turing Test, is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence. Here Andrew Hodges gives a fresh and critical analysis of Turing's developing thought, relating it to his extraordinary life, and also to the more recent ideas of Roger Penrose.
I Filosofi: Turing
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Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.