• Turing's proof is a proof by Alan Turing, first published in November 1936 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"...
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  • 1937. Turing proves three problems undecidable: the "satisfaction" problem, the "printing" problem, and the Entscheidungsproblem. Turing's proof differs...
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    whether U is provable. — from Turing's paper as reprinted in The Undecidable, p. 145 Turing's example (his second proof): If one is to ask for a general...
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    2012, the centenary of Turing's birth. Very early in life, Turing's parents purchased a house in Guildford in 1927, and Turing lived there during school...
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  • λ-calculus and Turing machines coincided. Church was quick to recognise how compelling Turing's analysis was. In his review of Turing's paper he made clear...
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  • in April 1935 and preceded Turing by over a year, as Turing's paper was received for publication in May 1936. Turing's proof is made difficult by number...
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    uneven distribution of matter in galactic disc. Although Turing's ideas on morphogenesis and Turing patterns remained dormant for many years, they are now...
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  • (Church's theorem) and independently shortly thereafter by Alan Turing in 1936 (Turing's proof). Church proved that there is no computable function which decides...
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    has since been used in a wide range of proofs, including the first of Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Turing's answer to the Entscheidungsproblem. Diagonalization...
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  • Alan Turing's proof of the undecidability of the halting problem, and are very useful in reasoning about Turing machines as well. Say we had a Turing machine...
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    Test The Turing Trust Turing Tumble Turing's method Turing's proof Turing's Wager Turing+ (programming language) Turing.jl (probabilistic programming) Turingery...
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  • Rice's theorem (category Articles containing proofs)
    Scott–Curry theorem, an analogue to Rice's theorem in lambda calculus Turing's proof Hopcroft, John E.; Ullman, Jeffrey D. (1979), Introduction to Automata...
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    what is now known as the Turing test to the general public. Turing's paper considers the question "Can machines think?" Turing says that since the words...
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  • Gödel's first incompleteness theorem Tarski's undefinability theorem Turing's proof Löb's paradox Roger's fixed-point theorem Rice's theorem Soto-Andrade...
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  • In computability theory, a Turing reduction from a decision problem A {\displaystyle A} to a decision problem B {\displaystyle B} is an oracle machine...
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  • University of Birmingham, for his proof that it was "universal". Since the proof applies to a non-standard Turing machine model which allows infinite...
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  • Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) (/ˈkæp.tʃə/ KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response turing test used in computing...
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  • cites Turing's work on the ACE computer as designing "hardware to facilitate subroutine linkage"; Davis also references this work as Turing's use of...
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  • Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism. Synthese, 108(3), 361–377. doi: 10.1007/BF00413694 Copeland, B. J., & Proudfoot, D. (1999). Alan Turing's Forgotten...
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    The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (category Alan Turing)
    Chapter 34, Turing's theory of morphogenesis. In Copeland, B. Jack; Bowen, Jonathan P.; Wilson, Robin; Sprevak, Mark (2017). The Turing Guide. Oxford...
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  • as a black box (i.e., as a random oracle). Black box group Turing reduction Interactive proof system Matroid oracle Demand oracle Padding oracle attack...
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  • In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof (also known as a ZK proof or ZKP) is a protocol in which one party (the prover) can convince another party (the...
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  • In theoretical computer science, a probabilistic Turing machine is a non-deterministic Turing machine that chooses between the available transitions at...
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    A mathematical proof is a deductive argument for a mathematical statement, showing that the stated assumptions logically guarantee the conclusion. The...
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  • Proof theory is a major branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science within which proofs are treated as formal mathematical objects,...
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  • 1941 Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 computer. Zuse was not familiar with Turing's work on computability at the time. In particular, the Z3 lacked dedicated...
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  • Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (category Alan Turing)
    Based on Ordinals was the PhD dissertation of the mathematician Alan Turing. Turing's thesis is not about a new type of formal logic, nor was he interested...
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    heraldist Diariy Getmana Pylypa Orlika Alan Turing  United Kingdom 23 June 1912 7 June 1954 Mathematician Turing's proof William Van Alen  United States 10 August...
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    machine is capable of solving its own halting problem (a variation of Turing's proof applies). The halting problem for a Δ n 0 , Y {\displaystyle \Delta...
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  • In logic, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or the validity of a proposition by showing that assuming the proposition...
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