The Turing Guide by Jack CopelandMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
"...Contributors Jonathan Bowen and Jack Copeland observe that Turing founded “a field”, which is about as immense an industrial and scientific impact as can be made in a single lifetime. It is no wonder that building on Turing’s impact and ideas, this collection can range from pencil deciphering to asking the question of Chapter 41, “Is the whole universe a computer?” to validating Turing’s morphogenetic theory via the basic forms of ocean-dwelling radiolaria by application of his two-dimensional theory to three-dimensional growth. "
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