- Title:
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Written by:
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Andrew Hodges
- Read by:
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Gordon Griffin
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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28
- Duration:
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30 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2015
- Available Date:
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April 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486285815
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biography
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
International bestseller
'Andrew Hodges' 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
The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented 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 took his own life.
'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.'
The New York Times Book Review
'One of the finest scientific biographies ever written.'
The New Yorker