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Alan Turing: The Enigma

The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

by Andrew Hodges · 2014 · 587 pages

Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Stephen Wolfram

About This Book

A comprehensive biography of Alan Turing, the mathematician who laid the theoretical foundations for the modern computer and masterminded the breaking of the German Enigma code. The narrative follows his scientific triumphs and his tragic persecution by the British state for his homosexuality.

Genres

Biography & MemoirScience & TechnologyHistory

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceComputer ScienceCryptographyEnigma MachineLgbtq HistoryMathematicsWorld War Ii

Book Details

Published

2014

Pages

587

Language

en

ISBN

9781400865123

Awards & Recognition

Premio Giovanni Comisso (1992)

Audiobook Available

30h 38m
Narrated by Gordon Griffin

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