(1936). ‘On computable numbers’, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 2nd Series, 42, pp. 230–265. YORICK WILKS Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Sheffield, S11 4DP, UK E-mail: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk John von Neumann, The Computer and the Brain, 2nd edition, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, xxviii + 82 pp., $9.95 (paper), ISBN 0-300-084373-0. When John von Neumann turned his interest to computers, he was one of the leading mathematicians…
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