The Man Who Knew Too Much : Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer EPUB
by David Leavitt
Part of the Great Discoveries series
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To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer.
Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory.
Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short.
As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity—his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor—and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:17/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780393346572
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:17/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780393346572
