On May 28, 1936 Alan Turing published "On Computable Numbers with an Entscheidungsproblem Application". At 24, Turing identified the characteristics of a computable number and a simple method of calculating it. Using math, he did on paper what computers do before there was technology to create them.
Retro: a day like today Alan Turing published "On the computable numbers"
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On May 28, 1936 Alan Turing published "On Computable Numbers with an Entscheidungsproblem Application". At 24, Turing identified the characteristics of a number c ...