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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Table of Contents:
- The logical. Esprit de Corps to 13 February 1930 ; The spirit of truth to 14 April 1936 ; New men to 3 September 1939 ; The relay race to 10 November 1942
- Bridge passage to 1 April 1943
- The physical. Running up to 2 September 1945 ; Mercury delayed to 2 October 1948 ; The Greenwood tree to 7 February 1952 ; On the beach to 7 June 1954
- Postscript.