GÖDEL’S NUMBERS. “Andrew Hodges, Turing’s biographer, describes certain aspects of the “universal machine”:”…underneath here lay the same powerful idea that Gödel had used, that there was no essential distinction between “numbers” and operations on numbers. From a modern mathematical point of view, they were all alike symbols. With this done, it followed that one particular machine could simulate the work done by any machine.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022