A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official Book behind the Academy Award-winning Film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say That the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. -- Off the Shelf.
The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.
At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, 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.
The Book also tells how 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.
Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing\'s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing\'s revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design.
This New York Times -bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author That addresses Turing\'s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official Book behind the Academy Award-winning Film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say That the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one
