From: wgd@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Bill Dubuque)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: A possible approach to the foundations of mathematics  -  tm.txt [1/1]
Date: 12 Nov 95 18:57:43

Regarding the classification of behavior of small Turing machines,
you may find the following of interest:

Michel, Pascal, Busy beaver competition and Collatz-like problems,
Arch. Math. Logic (1993) 32:351-367.
 
Machlin, R (nee Kopp), and Stout, Q, The Complex Behavior of
Simple Machines, Physica D 42 (1990) 85-98

Brady, A. H., The busy beave game and the meaning of life,
in Herkin, R. (Ed) The Universal Turing Machine, pp. 259-277,
Oxford Univ Press 1988