Alan Turing the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game

A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic...

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Main Author:	Hodges, Andrew
Other Authors:	Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, [2014].
Subjects:	Turing, Alan Mathison, > 1912-1954. Mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography.
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