Alan Turing: The Enigma
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Mar '92
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- Paperback£12.99(9781784700089)
The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution - now an Oscar-winning film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War.
Read the true story behind The Pet Shop Boys' A man from the future.
Inspiring the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.
The extraordinary mathematician Alan Turing masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. In 1945, he completed the first design for the computer and his vision for the digital era foresaw artificial intelligence.
However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific thinkers was lost.
This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
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'Scrupulous and enthralling.' New York Times
'One of the finest scientific biographies ever written.' New Yorker
'A powerful story that combines professional success and personal tragedy.' Washington Post
One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told * Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind *
Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time * Time Out *
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind * New York Times Book Review *
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written * New Yorker *
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind…it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one -- Douglas Hofstadter * New York Times Book Review *
One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told * Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind *
Andrew Hodge’s book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time * Time Out *
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written * New Yorker *
Save your money for the forthcoming new edition of Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, regarded by many as one of the greatest biographies of anyone, let along Turing -- Robert Matthews * BBC Focus Magazine *
This book stands the test of time. It is a labour of love…compelling * Energy and Technology *
ISBN: 9780099116417
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 42mm
Weight: 574g
768 pages