Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And the Invention of the Computer - Brossura

Leavitt, David

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ISBN 10: 0393329097 ISBN 13: 9780393329094

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006

Riassunto

To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide.With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity—his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor—and elegantly explains his work and its implications.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393329097
• ISBN 13: 9780393329094
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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