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Andrew hodges biography of alan turingthe inspiration behind the 2014 movie the imitation gameoffers a fascinating portrait of a complicated genius. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. Synopsis andrew hodges s biography of alan turing, the brilliant cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the german enigma code and indeed was the the father of the modern computer, was regarded as the paperback buy of the season sunday times when it. Thanks to the movie the imitation game, alan turing has emerged from historys shadows, where his memory had languished for decades. Biography audiobooks andrew hodges alan turing the enigma part 02. Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself. The enigma 9780099116417 by hodges, andrew and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. A gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation.
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Buy andrew hodges ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. The american 2014 film the imitation game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization. He was a homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were considered a crime. Margaret boden, new scientist andrew hodges s magisterial alan turing. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading alan turing. Andrew hodges alan turing the enigma part 02 audiobook. Andrew hodges is tutor in mathematics at wadham college, oxford university. The enigma, a biography of alan turing 19121954 which succeeded in wrapping together turings life as the founder of computer science, chief world war ii.
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Since the early 1970s, hodges has worked on twistor theory, which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by roger penrose. It is absolutely comprehensive in all aspects of alans life and in particular the different intellectual areas he explored. The middle sections of the book, explaining first alan s pioneering work as a young mathemetician, then his contribution to cracking the enigma system, and then his diversion into the design and operation of early computers, were a really interesting read. And yet this salient figure in world history has remained, as the books title says, an enigma. R e v i e w s the centenary edition, 2012 turings rehabilitation from over a quartercenturys embarrassed silence was largely the result of andrew hodges s superb biography, alan turing.
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Penetrating, sympathetic, poetic, this life by a fellowmathematician was hailed as one of the finest scientific biographies. With loving care, hodges follows turings life from the clumsy child whose largely absentee parents were caught up in maintaining the british imperial presence in india, to the mathematically precocious adolescent facing teachers for whom mathematics imparted a bad smell to a room, finally coming into his own at cambridge university where he wrote the paper that provided the conceptual underpinnings. The book is a scholarly, well researched book and gives a fascinating insight into the life of this genius and his contribution to the creation of computers and computing. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read alan turing. The book that inspired the film the imitation game by andrew hodges 2014, paperback for sale online ebay. Listed as one of the essential 50 books of all time in the guardian. The official book behind the academy awardwinning film the imitation game, starring benedict cumberbatch and keira knightley alan turing was the mathematician whose ciphercracking transformed the.
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