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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... chess . Instead , he had taught at Winchester and then became Director of Research for the John Lewis Partnership , the leading group of department stores . At the outbreak of war he and the other British chess masters had been caught ...
... chess . Instead , he had taught at Winchester and then became Director of Research for the John Lewis Partnership , the leading group of department stores . At the outbreak of war he and the other British chess masters had been caught ...
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... Chess interested him too , and unlike Alan he was a Cambridgeshire county player . He had already in 1938 published a light - hearted article on mechanised chess - playing in the first issue of Eureka , the house magazine of the ...
... Chess interested him too , and unlike Alan he was a Cambridgeshire county player . He had already in 1938 published a light - hearted article on mechanised chess - playing in the first issue of Eureka , the house magazine of the ...
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... chess . † A game without concealment , such as chess , von Neumann called a game of ' perfect information ' , and he proved that any such game would always possess an optimal ' pure strategy ' . In the case of chess , this would be a ...
... chess . † A game without concealment , such as chess , von Neumann called a game of ' perfect information ' , and he proved that any such game would always possess an optimal ' pure strategy ' . In the case of chess , this would be a ...
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The Spirit of Truth | 46 |
New Men | 111 |
The Relay Race 160 | 160 |
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