The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer

Author: David Leavitt

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Price : 37.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780393329094
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.288
Publication date : 01 November 2006
Dimensions : 200mm X 135mm X 21mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : David Leavitt
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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.