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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... King's historian and first advocate of a ' League of Nations ' , wrote18 in his autobiography : I have seen nothing ... King's College was very different from Sherborne School . It was also part of the King's attitude to life that it ...
... King's historian and first advocate of a ' League of Nations ' , wrote18 in his autobiography : I have seen nothing ... King's College was very different from Sherborne School . It was also part of the King's attitude to life that it ...
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... King's College was unique . Here it was possible to doubt an axiom which Shaw left unquestioned and Butler skated over nervously . for It was only possible because no one breached the line that separated the official from the unofficial ...
... King's College was unique . Here it was possible to doubt an axiom which Shaw left unquestioned and Butler skated over nervously . for It was only possible because no one breached the line that separated the official from the unofficial ...
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... King stood in need of God's grace , and Baldwin showed his hand . On 3 December , Alan wrote : I am horrified at the way people are trying to interfere with the King's marriage . It may be that the King should not marry Mrs Simpson ...
... King stood in need of God's grace , and Baldwin showed his hand . On 3 December , Alan wrote : I am horrified at the way people are trying to interfere with the King's marriage . It may be that the King should not marry Mrs Simpson ...
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