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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... Britain also had to continue the economic system on which vast populations around the globe depended , and to remain at war at all , had to attack Italy in a Middle East which was now as distant from Britain as was New Zealand . The ...
... Britain also had to continue the economic system on which vast populations around the globe depended , and to remain at war at all , had to attack Italy in a Middle East which was now as distant from Britain as was New Zealand . The ...
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... Britain was no longer one of the ' Big Three ' , her role in the Mediterranean being quickly taken by the United States . It was a moment of truth , in which Britain appeared as a giant desert island . Germany had forced the truly Big ...
... Britain was no longer one of the ' Big Three ' , her role in the Mediterranean being quickly taken by the United States . It was a moment of truth , in which Britain appeared as a giant desert island . Germany had forced the truly Big ...
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... Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room , in another sphere . In 1952 , as in 1942 , the times were out of joint . The rulers of Great Britain were still apt to regard the behaviour of its population as that of a public ...
... Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room , in another sphere . In 1952 , as in 1942 , the times were out of joint . The rulers of Great Britain were still apt to regard the behaviour of its population as that of a public ...
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