Alan Turing the Enigma

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hodges Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Hodges
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1992
• EAN: 9780099116417
• ISBN: 978-0-09-911641-7
• No. of pages: 768
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Biographien (div.), Turing, Alan, Artificial Intelligence, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Second World War, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Coding theory & cryptology, Coding theory and cryptology