Though numerous books have been written about Alan Turing, his own works – including his seminal papers On Computable Numbers (1936) and Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) - were published mostly in scientific journals. Today, scanned copies (including papers listed below) are kept in the archive at King's College, Cambridge University, and digital versions can be found online – a venue that would surely not have been lost on the founder of computer science.
If you are interested in exploring Turing’s ideas, much of his writing can be accessed through the Turing Digital Archive (www.turingarchive.org); if you prefer physical books (and can part with several hundred dollars) you might want to splurge on Collected Works of A. M. Turing, which includes four volumes: “Mechanical Intelligence,” “Morphogenesis,” “Pure Mathematics,” and “Morphogenesis,” “Mathematical Logic.”
Major Works
