The Once and Future Turing : Computing the World (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Introduction S. Barry Cooper and Andrew Hodges; Part I. Inside our Computable World, and the Mathematics of Universality: 1. Algorithms, equations, and logic Martin Davis; 2. The forgotten Turing J. M. E. Hyland; 3. Turing and the primes Andrew R. Booker; 4. Cryptography and computation after Turing Ueli Maurer; 5. Alan Turing and enigmatic statistics Kanti V. Mardia and S. Barry Cooper; Part II. The Computation of Processes, and Not Computing the Brain: 6. What Alan Turing might have discovered Stephen Wolfram; 7. Designed versus intrinsic computation Christof Teuscher; 8. Dull rigid human meets ace mechanical translator Douglas Richard Hofstadter; Part III. The Reverse Engineering Road to Computing Life: 9. Turing's theory of developmental pattern formation Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney and Ruth E. Baker; 10. Walking the tightrope: the dilemma of hierarchical instabilities in Turing's morphogenesis Richard Gordon; Part IV. Biology, Mind, and the Outer Reaches of Quantum Computation: 11. Answering Descartes: beyond Turing Stuart Kauffman; 12. The ghost in the quantum Turing machine Scott Aaronson; Part V. Oracles, Infinitary Computation, and the Physics of the Mind: 13. Turing's 'oracle': from absolute to relative computability and back Solomon Feferman; 14. Turing transcendent: beyond the event horizon P. D. Welch; 15. On attempting to model the mathematical mind Roger Penrose; Afterword S. Barry Cooper and Andrew Hodges.