Alan Turing : the enigma /

Hodges, Andrew, 1949-

Alan Turing : the enigma / Andrew Hodges - London : Vintage, 1992 - xix, 586 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician who has been described as the father of the modern computer. He masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and was caught up in the secrecy and bureaucracy of World War II and afterwards - continually frustrated in his desire to build a machine which could think, as those with power over him feared both his homosexuality and indiscretion. This is an account of his life, which ended by his own hand

This is a biography of Cambridge mathematician, mastermind code-breaker and inventor of the super-computer, Alan Turing.



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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
Turing, Alan, 1912-1954


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