Alan Turing: The Enigma - Film Tie In

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications. But his vision went far beyond this achievement. 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.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 took his own life.

Info autore

Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.

Riassunto

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.

Relazione

One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Hodges
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2014
• EAN: 9781784700089
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-008-9
• Pagine: 768
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 39 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Second World War, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Coding theory & cryptology, Biography: science, technology and medicine, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Coding theory and cryptology