Alan Turing: The EnigmaA gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. Despite his wartime service, Turing was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program-- all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science and artificial intelligence is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. --Excerpted from 2014 version, published by Princeton University Press. |
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Page 141
... calculation of astronomical predictions to show that ( in a certain precise sense ) the first 104 zeroes of the zeta - function did all lie on the line . Alan's idea was essentially to examine the next few thousand or so in the hope of ...
... calculation of astronomical predictions to show that ( in a certain precise sense ) the first 104 zeroes of the zeta - function did all lie on the line . Alan's idea was essentially to examine the next few thousand or so in the hope of ...
Page 384
... calculation which bridged the two descriptions of a machine such as a computer , the logical description and the physical description . He showed that in a job taking more than 101017 steps , a physical storage mechanism would be ...
... calculation which bridged the two descriptions of a machine such as a computer , the logical description and the physical description . He showed that in a job taking more than 101017 steps , a physical storage mechanism would be ...
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... calculation . The gear wheels that had been cutting when the phoney war broke in could now be replaced by ... calculations concerned with the distribution of the zeros of the Reimann zeta - function . It was intended in fact to determine ...
... calculation . The gear wheels that had been cutting when the phoney war broke in could now be replaced by ... calculations concerned with the distribution of the zeros of the Reimann zeta - function . It was intended in fact to determine ...
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The Spirit of Truth | 46 |
New Men | 111 |
The Relay Race 160 | 160 |
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