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Andrew Hodges

Alan Turing: The Enigma

The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54) saved the Allies from the Nazis and invented the computer and artificial intelligence--all before his suicide at age forty-one. Andrew Hodges tells how Turing's ideas laid the foundation for the modern computer, and how he took a leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II. This is also the tragic account of a man who was persecuted for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, this is the definiti… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hodges, Andrew (Vorwort v.) / Hofstadter, Douglas (Vorb.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-16472-4
  • EAN: 9780691164724
  • Produktnummer: 16487401
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 768 S.
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D5.6 cm 587 g
  • Gewicht: 587

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Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford.

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