This is the official Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay; and Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.
In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life..
However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment.
Turing\'s far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence.
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.
But his vision went far beyond this achievement.
He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany\'s air force.
Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering.
This is the official Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay; and Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War
