Alan Turing's landmark paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" [1] was presented to the London Mathematical Society on #onthisday in 1936, and subsequently published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 1937.

In this paper Turing introduced what we now know as the Turing machine, and laid the theoretical groundwork for what would become computer science. He was only 24 years old at the time.

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[1] "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

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This list of the earliest know use of maths terms is an amazing way to loose time finding old (but super interesting) papers to read thru! Stuff you may likely never come across otherwise!

For someone like myself who loves, but is less than proficient at, maths.... this is a treasure trove of older and more approachable technical papers! And if you are a maths wizard, well I'm sure you can appreciate it for the history and maybe add some obscure older papers to your offline archive! ;)

Link: Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics

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