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5 - Alan Turing and Enigmatic Statistics

from Part One - Inside Our Computable World, and the Mathematics of Universality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Kanti V. Mardia
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
S. Barry Cooper
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
S. Barry Cooper
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Andrew Hodges
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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The Once and Future Turing
Computing the World
, pp. 78 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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