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Events on Thursday 28 May 1936 1
1936Turing submits On Computable NumbersThe paper that introduced the Turing machineAlan Turing submitted his paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem to the London Mathematical Society. It described an abstract computing machine and showed that some mathematical problems cannot be decided by any mechanical procedure. The paper became a founding text of computer science.