Alan Turing proved that no general algorithm can determine whether any given computer program will eventually stop or run forever, establishing fundamental limits on what can be computed mechanically.
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Cambridge, 1936.
Alan Turing has a question on his desk that sounds harmless until it starts eating mathematics.
Could truth be turned into a recipe? If every proof is only steps, maybe one perfect method could judge them all.
So, Turing imagines the strangest little machine. Endless paper tape, one square at a time, a reader moving left or right, obeying rules like a clerk who never gets tired. Then he poisons the machine with one question.
Can it always know whether another machine will ever stop?
No. Some procedures run forever. Some doors do not open. There is no master key hiding at the bottom of mathematics.
Years before Bletchley, before computers filled rooms, Turing found the crack in the world with a machine that existed only on paper.
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