Today I decided to recall the book by Charles Petzold “Read Turing” from the series “Classics of programming”.

The book is very interesting and at the same time very difficult to understand:) In fact, Thuring during his life published about 30 These were all articles and no books. Two articles became classic: "On computable numbers" - here the Turing machine was introduced to solve one of Hilbert's problems regarding the general process of provability of arbitrary statements in mathematical logic. "Computing machines and intelligence" - here appeared the famous Turing test, in which the presence of intelligence in a machine is tested by communicating with a person - if a person can not distinguish a machine from a person, we believe that it has intelligence.

In the article on the link, Charles Petzold’s book “Read Turing” is considered, in which he tries to explain on his fingers what the essence of the article “On computable numbers” is and what Turing’s machine has to do with it. https://apolomodov.medium.com/review-annotated-turing-30c884af201c

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