The Essential Turing

Alan Turing was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This volume makes his key writings available to a non-specialist readership for the first time. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence life all spring from this ground-breaking work.

1 - On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936)
2 - On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques
3 - Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938)
4 - Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c. 1940)
5. - History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1845)
6 - Bombe and Spider (1940)
7 - Letter to Winston Churchill (1941)
8 - Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c. 1941)
9 - Lecture on the Automatic Computing Machine (1947)
10 - Intelligent Machinery (1948)
11 - Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
12 - Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c. 1951)
13 - Can Digital Computers Think?
14 - Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952)
15 - The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952)
16 - Chess (1953)
17 - Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)