On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem

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"On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" is Alan Turing’s landmark 1936 paper that introduced the Turing machine model and founded the formal study of computability and the limits of algorithmic decision procedures.


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instanceOf computer science foundational work
mathematics paper
scientific paper
academicDiscipline foundations of mathematics
logic in computer science
addressesProblem Entscheidungsproblem
author Alan Turing
citedAs Turing 1936 paper
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
field computability theory
mathematical logic
theoretical computer science
followedBy Computability and λ-definability
hasPart application to the Entscheidungsproblem
construction of a universal machine
definition of automatic machines
proof of the existence of uncomputable numbers
historicalSignificance foundational paper in computability theory
one of the founding works of theoretical computer science
influenced development of computer science
recursion theory
theory of algorithms
influencedBy David Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem
Kurt Gödel’s work on formal systems
introducesConcept Turing machine
computable function
computable real number
universal Turing machine
language English
mainSubject Entscheidungsproblem
Turing machines
computable numbers
provesResult existence of uncomputable numbers
existence of undecidable problems
unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem
publishedIn Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
publisher London Mathematical Society
relatedTo Church–Turing thesis
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
lambda calculus
shortTitle On Computable Numbers
timePeriod 20th century
title On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
usesMethod diagonalization
encoding of machines as numbers
yearPublished 1936

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