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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... Don Bayley , producing fir cones as he had in 1941. He was still sure there had to be a reason for it . And he found time for mathematical study of his own , taking up von Neumann's Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics again ...
... Don Bayley , producing fir cones as he had in 1941. He was still sure there had to be a reason for it . And he found time for mathematical study of his own , taking up von Neumann's Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics again ...
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... Don Bayley . This time he distinguished himself by fainting when he grazed himself shaving . He had told Don long before about this reaction to blood , but this was the first time Don had seen it happen . There had also been an occasion ...
... Don Bayley . This time he distinguished himself by fainting when he grazed himself shaving . He had told Don long before about this reaction to blood , but this was the first time Don had seen it happen . There had also been an occasion ...
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... Don Bayley and Robin went up to Wilmslow for a weekend , a re - creation of Hanslope . Don was there first and they waited together for Robin on the station , Alan showing Don the diffraction pattern that appeared when looking at the ...
... Don Bayley and Robin went up to Wilmslow for a weekend , a re - creation of Hanslope . Don was there first and they waited together for Robin on the station , Alan showing Don the diffraction pattern that appeared when looking at the ...
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