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The Papers of Alan Mathison Turing


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Extent 6 boxes paper



Folder icon  Unpublished manuscripts and drafts  AMT/C  1927-1977

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2 boxes paper

Source of acquisition: Reference: C/24-27 received in 1978 from N.E. Hoskin
C/23 received in 1979 from Prof. I.J. Good (photocopies from originals in his possession)


Contents:
Dr Gandy paginated and annotated some of the papers with a view to posthumous publication in 'Collected Works of A. M. Turing' (Elsevier Science Publishers: Amsterdam, 1992). His annotations at the head of the manuscripts, and in the body of the text, are indicated in the relevant catalogue entries.


Expand   'The difference psi (x) - x'  AMT/C/1  c. 1937 (Date has been estimated.)
Expand   'Zeta function machine'  AMT/C/2  17 July 1939
Expand   'Some theorems about Church's system'  AMT/C/3  1942 (Date has been estimated - AMT worked with Alonzo Church at Princeton, 1936-8, and published 2 articles on the subject in 1942.)
Expand   Untitled paper beginning '§5. Consequences of the Peano axioms'  AMT/C/4  (Undated.)
Expand   Untitled paper beginning '9. Finite models of Church's and Zermelo's systems'  AMT/C/5  (Undated.)
Expand   'A practical form of type theory II'  AMT/C/6  c. 1948
Expand   'A diffusion reaction theory of morphogenesis in plants'  AMT/C/7  Jan. 1952-May 1952 (Date has been supplied.)
Expand   'Morphogen theory of phyllotaxis. Part I. Geometrical and descriptive phyllotaxis.'  AMT/C/8  Dec. 1954-1977 (After 1954.)
Expand   'Part II. Chemical theory of morphogenesis'  AMT/C/9  1954-1977 (After 1954.)
Expand   'Part III. A solution of the morphogenetical equations for the case of spherical symmetry'  AMT/C/10  1954-1977 (After 1954.)
Expand   'Intelligent machinery'  AMT/C/11  (Undated.)
Expand   'The reform of mathematical notation and phraseology'  AMT/C/12  (Undated.)
Expand   'General tensors in a group'  AMT/C/13  (Undated.)
Expand   'Minimum cost sequential analysis'  AMT/C/14  (Undated.)
Expand   'A note on normal numbers.'  AMT/C/15  (Undated.)
Expand   'The word problem in compact groups'  AMT/C/16  (Undated.)
Expand   'On Permutation Groups'  AMT/C/17  (Undated.)
Expand   'The game of poker'  AMT/C/18  (Undated.)
Expand   'The game of "Psychology"'  AMT/C/19  (Undated.)
Expand   'The elliptic integrals K, E.'  AMT/C/20  (Undated.)
Expand   'Précis of Relativity Theory'  AMT/C/21  c. 1927 (Date has been estimated.)
Expand   'The rules of GO'  AMT/C/22  1930-1939 (Date has been estimated as 1930s from AMT's time at King's College.)
Expand   Notes and calculations  AMT/C/23  1943 (Date has been estimated.)
Expand   Work on morphogenesis  AMT/C/24-27  [n.d.]
Expand   'On the Gaussian Error Function'  AMT/C/28  1935
Expand   'Nature of Spirit'  AMT/C/29  Apr. 1932 (Date has been supplied.)
Expand   'Treatise on the Enigma'  AMT/C/30  c. 1939-c. 1942 (Date has been estimated.)
Expand   Report on AMT's visit to the Naval Computing Machine Laboratory at Dayton, Ohio  AMT/C/31  Dec. 1942
Expand   'Proposed electronic calculator' [Automatic computing engine]  AMT/C/32  1946
Expand   'Minimum weight structures'  AMT/C/33  1953


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