Turing's 1936 Paper

Alan Turing's 1936 paper introduced the concept of the Turing machine, a theoretical model that formalizes how computation works. It defined a simple, abstract device that manipulates symbols on a tape according to a set of rules, illustrating the fundamental principles of algorithms and computation. This work established the foundation for understanding what it means for a problem to be solvable by a machine. Turing’s ideas also laid the groundwork for the development of modern computers by demonstrating that a single machine could, in theory, perform any computational task that can be described algorithmically.