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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 29
Page 79
... quantum mechanics by Schrödinger and Heisenberg . On 16 October 1933 he wrote : My prize book from Sherborne is turning out very interesting , and not at all difficult reading , although the applied mathematicians seem to find it rather ...
... quantum mechanics by Schrödinger and Heisenberg . On 16 October 1933 he wrote : My prize book from Sherborne is turning out very interesting , and not at all difficult reading , although the applied mathematicians seem to find it rather ...
Page 80
... theory of quantum mechanics , proceeding logically from clear - cut axioms . The unforeseen application of ' Hilbert space ' was just the kind of thing that Alan would produce to support his claim for pure mathematics . He had seen ...
... theory of quantum mechanics , proceeding logically from clear - cut axioms . The unforeseen application of ' Hilbert space ' was just the kind of thing that Alan would produce to support his claim for pure mathematics . He had seen ...
Page 95
... theory and quantum mechanics , to the topological groups which were the pure - mathematical underpinning of quantum theory , but taking in numerous other topics on the side . John von Neumann was one of the most important figures in ...
... theory and quantum mechanics , to the topological groups which were the pure - mathematical underpinning of quantum theory , but taking in numerous other topics on the side . John von Neumann was one of the most important figures in ...
Contents
The Spirit of Truth | 46 |
New Men | 111 |
The Relay Race 160 | 160 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alan Turing Alan Turing's Alan wrote Alan's American AMT's arithmetic Bletchley Bletchley Park Bombe boys brain Britain British calculation called Cambridge cathode ray tube chess Christopher cipher Computable Numbers cryptanalytic Darwin delay line Delilah differential analyser digits discussion Don Bayley Donald Michie EDVAC electronic enciphered engineering ENIAC Enigma machine fact G.H. Hardy German Hanslope Hilbert homosexual human idea instructions intelligence interest kind King's knew letter logical Manchester mathematician mathematics Max Newman mechanical messages method mind Morcom naval Enigma Neumann never Newman operations organisation paper perhaps Peter Hilton physical play plugboard position possible Princeton problem question Robin Gandy rotor scientific secret sexual Shaun Wylie Sherborne signals symbols talk tape teleprinter theorem theory thing thought took Turing machine U-boat universal machine Womersley word writing