Alan Turing: The Enigma

Hodges, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0671492071 / ISBN 13: 9780671492076

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 1983

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Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Good. No dust jacket. Missing dust jacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur Alibris.0016696

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Alan Turing: The Enigma
• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671492071
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671492076
• Reliure: Hard cover

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Synopsis

Book by Hodges Andrew

Quatrième de couverture

'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

Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the

cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated 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 committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.

'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