Editing 1937 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* January –  [[Alan Turing]]'s [[1936 in science|1936]] paper "On Computable Numbers" first appears in print.<ref>{{cite journal|first=A. M.|last=Turing|title=On computable numbers, with an application to the ''Entscheidungsproblem''|journal=[[Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society]] |series=Series 2|volume=42|pages=230–265|year=1937|doi=10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230|s2cid=73712 |url=http://www.abelard.org/turpap2/tp2-ie.asp|accessdate=2017-12-24|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Alonzo Church]]'s review of it in ''[[Journal of Symbolic Logic]]'' introduces the term [[Turing machine]].
* [[Claude Shannon]]'s Master's [[thesis]] at [[MIT]] demonstrates that electronic application of [[Boolean algebra]] could construct and resolve any logical numerical relationship.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poundstone|first=William|title=Fortune's Formula: the Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street|location=New York|publisher=Hill & Wang|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8090-4637-9|url=https://archive.org/details/fortunesformulau00poun}}</ref>
* [[Konrad Zuse]] submits [[patent]]s in [[Germany]] based on his [[Z1 (computer)|Z1 computer]] design anticipating [[von Neumann architecture]].