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Alan Turing: The Enigma

By Andrew Hodges

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
768
Release Date:
1992-03-05
Publication Date:
1992-03-05
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099116413
ISBN13:
9780099116417
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
569 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
43 cm

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