What are Turing Machines? | Attic Philosophy

If you study computer science, maths, or philosophy, sooner or later you'll run into Turing Machines. But what are they? How do they work, what have they got to do with computation, and how did they come to be one of the central concepts in computer science? Let's find out! 00:00 - Intro 00:41 - Turing Machines 02:33 - Turing machines since Turing 02:47 - Tally Notation 03:28 - Adding numbers 03:59 - Multiplying numbers 05:07 - Adding Memory 06:03 - Register Machines 07:03 - Other models of computation 08:22 - What I’ve learned from Turing Machines 09:16 - Wrap-Up If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered, leave me a comment below. Links: My academic philosophy page: markjago.net/ My book What Truth Is: bit.ly/JagoTruth Most of my publications are available freely here: philpapers.org/s/Mark%20Jago Get in touch on Social media! Instagram: www.instagram.com/AtticPhilosophy Twitter: twitter.com/PhilosophyAttic #computing #philosophy #Turing