The Essential Turing

• the first purchasable book by Turing
• the ideas that gave birth to modern computing
• designed for a general readership
• brings together unpublished and inaccessible pieces
• introduction gives a clear overview of Turing's life and works
• highly relevant to his famous work in WWII codebreaking

Readership: Anyone with an interest in computing, artificial intelligence, codebreaking, WW2 history, or the history of ideas and technology in the 20th century.

B. J. Copeland, Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

"A worthwhile addition to the growing body of material on Turing and related historical aspects of computing. The Essential Turing is a must for any library or individual wanting a comprehensive academic collection on Turing computation." - Jonathan Bowen, THES

Jack Copeland: Alan Turing 1912-1954
Jack Copeland: Computable Numbers: A Guide
1: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936)
2: Alan Turing, Emil Post, and Donald W. Davies: On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques
3: Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938)
4: Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c. 1940)
Jack Copeland: Enigma
5.: Patrick Mahon: 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)
Jack Copeland: Artificial Intelligence
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: Alan Turing, Richard Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson, and Max Newman: Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952)
Jack Copeland: Artificial Life
15: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952)
16: Chess (1953)
17: Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)