
It wasn’t published in 2011 but The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine is without doubt my computer science book of the year.
If books can change your life then The Annotated Turing changed mine – because it showed me just how strong the link between maths and computer science is and how fundamental maths is to an understanding of the nature of reality and truth. The world, in my eyes, has not been the same since I read this book last January.
If you are a computer science student the you must read this book!
And finally, Happy New Year to all.