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SUMMARY:Alan Turing: the creative power of mathematics - Hodges\, A (Unive
 rsity of Oxford)
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Nowadays it is widely acknowledged that Turing's 1936 definiti
 on of computability\, and his discovery of the concept of the universal ma
 chine\, provided the foundation for the emergence of the digital computer 
 in 1945. But Turing was not simply a logician. In this talk\, I shall brin
 g out how Turing's youthful 1936 work arose from a wide field of enquiry w
 ith mathematical\, physical and philosophical elements. Then\, that Turing
 's broad approach to mathematics and technology led him through the wartim
 e cryptographic work into his own electronic computer plan of 1945. This e
 xtraordinary breadth of knowledge and application also created the setting
  for his later Artificial Intelligence plans and for his theory of biologi
 cal growth.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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