Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...

IN 1935, Alan Turing set out to build a reputation by outflanking the world’s leading mathematician. Turing was 22 years old, and a new fellow at Cambridge. His target, David Hilbert, was the ...

Delphine Billouard-Fuentes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...