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 electr...
Main Author: | Hodges, Andrew. |
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Other Authors: | Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945- |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Princeton, [New Jersey] :
Princeton University Press,
[2014].
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