Alan Turing : the enigma

Author(s)

• Hodges, Andrew

Bibliographic Information

Alan Turing : the enigma

Andrew Hodges

Vintage, 2012

Other Title

Alan Turing : the enigma : the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution

Note

Originally published: Burnett Books in association with Hutchinson, 1983

Includes bibliographical references (p. [680]-713) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BB20843896
• ISBN:
  • 9780099116417
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxxii, 736 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
  • LCSH : Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography