Alan Turing: The Enigma

Hodges, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0099116413 / ISBN 13: 9780099116417

Editore: Vintage Books, 1992

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No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine, with light uniform tanning to the text block. Clean and tight copy, no conspicuous damage, light rubbing to the edges and corners. There is no creasing at all to the spine. Thus: a trifle shelf-aged, but a copy that sits square and flat, with a clean text throughout. Includes the 1992 Preface. xix, 586pp. Illustrated. Codice articolo 3684

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Titolo: Alan Turing: The Enigma

Casa editrice: Vintage Books

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Softcover

Condizione: Very Good

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Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.

Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated 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 committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.

Recensione:

"One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told" (Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind)

"Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time" (Time Out)

"A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind" (New York Times Book Review)

"One of the finest scientific biographies ever written" (New Yorker)

"A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind...it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one" (Douglas Hofstadter New York Times Book Review)