Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science) - The Making of the Modern Computer

Part of the new Icon Science series, which collects many of the most fascinating and groundbreaking moments in science history.''Thought provoking yet highly readable'' (New Scientist) biography of a brilliant but troubled manIn 2014, the film The Imitation Game focuses solely on Alan Turing''s life - Turing played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Turing''s work not only helped break German code during the WWII effort, his research also founded the beginnings of the modern computer.Currently the UK is posthumously granting pardons to gay men, who in the past were charged with gross indecency when homosexuality was deemed illegal - this general pardon is modelled on the 2013 royal pardon granted by the Queen to Alan Turing - there is a potential LGBT interest when discussing Turing''s life.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Agar, Agar Jon
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781785782381
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-238-1
• Series: Icon Science; Icon Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History, popular science, HISTORY / General, computer science, Computers, ANF:Popular Science, Electronic digital computers.