The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Author(s): David Leavitt
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton & Company Limited
- : 0.288
- : 01 November 2006
- : 200mm X 135mm X 21mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : 510.92
- : English
- : Paperback
- : David Leavitt