One Last AIOne Last AI

AI History Timeline

Explore 85+ years of artificial intelligence development

🧮1936
December 15, 2025 • By AI History Research Team

Alan Turing's Revolutionary Paper: The Birth of Computational Theory

Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' laid the mathematical foundation for all modern computation and artificial intelligence, defining what machines can and cannot compute.

Alan TuringTuring MachineComputational TheoryEntscheidungsproblem

References

  • 1. Turing, A. M. (1936). On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 42(2), 230-265.
  • 2. Copeland, B. J. (2004). The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life. Oxford University Press.
  • 3. Hodges, A. (2012). Alan Turing: The Enigma. Princeton University Press.
  • 4. Davis, M. (2000). The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 5. Petzold, C. (2008). The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine. Wiley.