Andrew Hodges Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Alan Turing: The EnigmaCondition: NewEAN: 9781784700089ISBN: 9781784700089Publisher: VintageFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/13/2014Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 39mmItem Weight: 563gAuthor: Andrew HodgesLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation GameISBN-10: 1784700088Description: The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications. But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Biography, Science Nature & Math, Law & PoliticsType: EducationRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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