Alan Turing: The Enigma - The Book That Inspired the Film 'The Imitation Game'
Verlag | Princeton University Press |
Auflage | 2015 |
Seiten | 768 |
Format | 12,4 x 21 x 4,5 cm |
Gewicht | 754 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 069116472X |
EAN | 9780691164724 |
Bestell-Nr | 69116472EA |
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54) saved the Allies from the Nazis and invented the computer and artificial intelligence - all before his suicide at age forty-one. Andrew Hodges tells how Turing\'s ideas laid the foundation for the modern computer, and how he took a leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II. This is also the tragic account of a man who was persecuted for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, this is the definitive biography of an extraordinary mind and life.
Rezension:
"One of the finest scientific biographies ever written." - Jim Holt, New Yorker