computable

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According to Hansons Auctioneers, one of the papers - On Computable Numbers - sold for "a remarkable" £208,000.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Image: Bank of England The table and mathematical formulae come from Turing’s seminal 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem,” which introduced the concept of the Turing Machine.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2021

“On Computable Numbers,” written in England, was published in the proceedings of the London Mathematical Society after Turing arrived at Princeton, where he would spend two academic years earning a Ph.D.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2015

But what is even more impressive, and the main reason why Turing’s paper “On Computable Numbers” is held in such awe today, is that he realized that his “automatic machine” could be a universal computer.

From Forbes • Mar. 13, 2014

A Turing biographer, Andrew Hodges, doubts that his subject had seen the Lovelace notes when he wrote “On Computable Numbers.”

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2011