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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.

      Includes a new foreword by the author a...

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      Product ID:9780099116417
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Alan Turing: The Enigma
      Authors:Author: Andrew Hodges
      Page Count:768
      Subjects:Biography: general, Biography: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Computing and Information Technology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Computing & information technology, England, English
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      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.

      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.


      Imprint Name:Vintage
      Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:1992-03-05

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      Weight568 g
      Dimensions131 × 198 × 41 mm