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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... perhaps encouraging him in the gentle sexual approach that he made a few days later , as they rested on the hillside . This almost accidental but electric moment was perhaps less important to Alan than to James , who had been ...
... perhaps encouraging him in the gentle sexual approach that he made a few days later , as they rested on the hillside . This almost accidental but electric moment was perhaps less important to Alan than to James , who had been ...
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... perhaps come to realise that Alan's vivacity offered her a taste of the more artistic life that she had been denied ... Perhaps Alan also confronted the figure of his father , whose strength had somehow cancelled itself out , and who had ...
... perhaps come to realise that Alan's vivacity offered her a taste of the more artistic life that she had been denied ... Perhaps Alan also confronted the figure of his father , whose strength had somehow cancelled itself out , and who had ...
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... Perhaps , however , the magic of the 1940s could never be recaptured amidst the dull white heat of the 1960s technological revolution . And perhaps the closest evocation of the Turing spirit in this period was not in science , but in ...
... Perhaps , however , the magic of the 1940s could never be recaptured amidst the dull white heat of the 1960s technological revolution . And perhaps the closest evocation of the Turing spirit in this period was not in science , but in ...
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