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What Computers Can't Do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Geoffrey Hunter
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor

Extract

My aim in this article is to make accessible to non-mathematicians the groundwork of the theory of effective methods and unsolvable problems. The beauty of the theory is that it needs hardly any hard work to get very quickly from simple intuitive ideas to some extraordinarily interesting and surprising results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1988

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