Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Pre-recorded digital audio player
Publication Date: 01/08/2014
A skillful, literate (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo 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 novelists sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanityhis eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candorand elegantly explains his work and its implications.
- ISBN:
- 9781483037257
- 9781483037257
- Category:
- Biography: science
- Format:
- Pre-recorded digital audio player
- Publication Date:
- 01-08-2014
- Publisher:
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 185x137x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.18kg
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