How long does it take to read The Essential Turing?
Alan Mathison Turing, Jack Copeland
The Essential Turing by Alan Mathison Turing, Jack Copeland takes about 11 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 607 pages, about 166,925 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and work on artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary that he can claim to be the founding father of these disciplines. In this book, Turing's key writings in all these subjects are made easily accessible for the first time. Lectures, scientific papers, top secret wartime material, correspondence, and broadcasts are introduced and set in context by Jack Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing."--Jacket.
Subjects: Компьютеры, Организация и обработка данных, Computers, Organization and Data Processing, Mathematics, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
