My publications on Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges For a guide to this website go to the Alan Turing Home Page

Publication list

This page gives a listing, in chronological order, of most of my publications concerned with the life and work of Alan Turing. I haven't included all the short newspaper and magazine articles or reference book entries.

My book Alan Turing: the Enigma  first appeared in 1983 and has remained in print ever since, with a new British edition in 1992, a new American edition in 2000, and several translations. The dramatist Hugh Whitemore used it as the basis for a stage-play (and later TV film) Breaking the Code.  More details on the Book area of this website.

I contributed to a BBC Radio series on scientists, and wrote a chapter for a related book. This had the antediluvian title of Man Masters Nature (BBC Books, 1987).

Rolf Herken, who oversaw the translation of my book into German, invited me to contribute an introductory essay Alan Turing and the Turing Machine  for the volume he conceived and edited: The Universal Turing Machine, a Half-Century Survey,  ed. R. Herken, Kammerer & Unversagt, Hamburg, and Oxford University Press (1988).

The London Sunday Times  carried an article in May 1995 as part of its feature on the fifiteth anniversary of the end of the European war.

• Alan Turing at VE Day

In 1995 I contributed an entry on Alan Turing for the (British) Dictionary of National Biography, which eventually appeared in 2004. I have used an expanded version of it as the Short Biography on this website, which was also started off in 1995.

In 1996 Ray Monk invited me to write the short text which appeared in 1997 as Turing: a natural philosopher  in the Great Philosophers  series which he edited. It has also become a chapter in an omnibus book edition of The Great Philosophers. Full text now on-line In 1999 Professor Ed Zalta, the editor of the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, invited me to submit an entry on Turing's life and thought. This article is published in an on-line format.

In the late 1990s Mike Yates, in editing the last volume of the Turing Collected Works  (see the main bibliography for a description) asked me to contribute two short prefaces, and these are now available on this site as:

• Turing's Treatise on the Enigma

• The Nature of Turing and the Physical World

In 1999 I was asked by Cambridge University Press to contribute a chapter on Turing for Cambridge Scientific Minds,  which appeared in 2002. The text is available here as

• Alan Turing — a Cambridge Scientific Mind.

In 2000 I contributed an entry for the Blackwell Companion to Philosophical Logic  (ed. Dale Jacquette, 2003)

In 2001 I was asked to write an entry on Turing for the Routledge Encyclopedia of The Philosophy of Science,  eds. S. Sarkar and J. Pfeifer, which eventually appeared in 2005. See my text:

• Turing  for the Routledge Encyclopedia

• Alan Turing and the Turing Test.

In June 2002 I gave an invited talk for the Turing Day at Lausanne, Switzerland. My speaking notes on

• What would Alan Turing have done after 1954?

• Introductory Biography of Alan Turing.

• The Military Use of Alan Turing

In 2003 the British computer magazine PC Pro commissioned:

• Electronic Spin: a feature article on Turing's computer design

In 2003 the Japan Times also commissioned an article, which I wrote as a review of a print by the artist Jin Wicked:

• Alan Turing's Life in a Print by Jin Wicked

In June 2004, for the fifieth anniversary of Turing's death, I spoke at a joint meeting of the British Logic Colloquium and the British Society for the History of Mathematics. The papers for this meeting are introduced and published on this page of the British Computer Society site. They include my article on Alan Turing: the logical and physical basis of computing.

In 2005, I contributed short entries to the Princeton Companion to Mathematics (still in press) and the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Barry Cooper invited me to speak at the opening of the Computability in Europe conference in Amsterdam, June 2005. A text based on this talk appeared as the opening paper of New Computational Paradigms, eds. Barry Cooper, Benedikt Löwe, Andrea Sorbi (Springer, 2008).

I was invited to speak on the topic Can quantum computing solve classically unsolvable problems? at the meeting of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy at Lisbon in August 2005.
The text is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512248

I was also invited by the editor, Prof. Adam Olszewski, to contribute to a volume on Church's Thesis after 70 years. This was published in June 2006. My article Did Church and Turing have a thesis about machines? is available on this site.

In November 2006, a special issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society carried a long review by me of Copeland's Essential Turing edition. This is available on-line directly in .pdf form. The review has appeared in Chinese translation in the journal Mathematical Advance in Translation (Beijing, 2008).

A further article by me has appeared in The Mechanical Mind in History, eds. P. Husbands and O. Holland, M. Wheeler, MIT Press (2008).

A review 'in retrospect' of Gödel's Proof appeared in Nature, vol. 454, page 829 (14 August 2008). Available online here.

Alan Turing Home Page	Short biography	Turing Scrapbook	Alan Turing: the Enigma
Page by Andrew Hodges, updated 2 November 2006 Copyright statement, contact details, and FAQ	Turing Sources	Philosophy Area	My Main Page