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The essential turing available for download and read online in other formats. Turing did not prove the existence of noncomputable functions by considering the halting problem, but by using the cantor diagonal argument. Seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life plus the secrets of enigma edited by b. Alan turing 191254 was a british mathematician who made history.
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