Entire volume offered. 137 pp; illus. Original printed wrappers. Very Good+. 'His last publication was in Penguin Science News, written like a modern Scientific American article, and entitled Solvable and unsolvable problems. Written vividly but from the perspective of a pure mathematician, its final words concerned the interpretation of unsolvable problems, such as the halting problem for Turing machines' (Andrew Hodges, 'Alan Turing: one of The Great Philosophers'; on Alan Turing Home Page).

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Title: Solvable and unsolvable problems'. Pp. 7-23 in: Science News 31.
Publisher: London: Penguin Books, 1954.
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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