Alan Turing the Enigma

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hodges Klappentext A new edition of Hodges's classic biography of Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code and was the father of the modern computer. With a new preface. 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