This theoretical construct was first described as a response to Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem [en-CHYE-duhngs-problem], which asked if mathematical propositions were in general decidable.
This theoretical construct was first described as a response to Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem [en-CHYE-duhngs-problem], which asked if mathematical propositions were in general decidable. Its answer, a negative, was demonstrated through a diagonal argument similar to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. To answer it, the concepts of decidability and computation had to be formalized, and in doing so its namesake first described it. In its most basic form, it can be visualized as a head moving along a tape, reading and writing symbols. FTP, name this device, theorized by a British mathematician in 1936, that is equivalent to any computer.
This theoretical construct was first described as a response to Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem [en-CHYE-duhngs-problem], which asked if mathematical propositions were in general decidable.
{Turing machine}