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January 01, 1935
Description
Turing contemplating the decidability of mathematics and envisioning the Turing machine.
Participants (1)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Turing | person | 134 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document appears to be a page from a biography or history book discussing Alan Turing's development of the theoretical 'Turing Machine' in the mid-1930s. It details his inspiration derived from Gödel's incompleteness theorems and his visualization of a machine using paper tape to compute mathematical problems. The page bears the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015911', indicating it was included in a document production by the House Oversight Committee.
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