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A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, 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. 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.
| ISBN | 0099116413 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780099116417
(What's this?) | | Pages | 624 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 457 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 05 Mar 1992 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Non-book description | B | | Spine width (mm) | 39 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General |
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"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  Be the first to write a customer review
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