“Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals” Alan Turing PhD dissertation 1938
Computing Machinery and Intelligence 1950
May 28, 1936: Alan Turing submitted his paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” that would quietly spark the digital revolution with the design of a machine (Bombe) that significantly shortened World War Two in Europe.
“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
– Alan Turing (1912-1954) pic.twitter.com/51WTlKFmXr
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) May 16, 2025
– Alan Turing (1912-1954)
#OnThisDay May 28, 1936, Alan Turing submitted his paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” for publication.
It quietly laid the foundations of modern computer science.
A thread: pic.twitter.com/meIuDnn9VI— History of the day (@hist_of_the_day) May 28, 2025
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