20.0 x 13.0cms 736pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback and cover Turing masterminded the cracking of Germany''s Enigma code and afthered the modern computer. Time Out described this biography as ''exemplary ssholarly sympathetic intimate perceptive and insightful.

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Titre: Alan Turing: The Enigma - The Book That Inspired The Film The Imitation Game
�diteur: Vintage London 2014
Date de parution: 2014
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 1784700088
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9781784700089
Reliure: Couverture souple

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The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley

Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.

But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.

Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.

� propos de l?auteur

Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.

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