Alan Turing : : The Enigma The Centenary Edition /

Alan Turing : : The Enigma The Centenary Edition / / Andrew Hodges.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This classic biography of the founder...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Hodges, Andrew,
MitwirkendeR:
Hofstadter, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (632 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Plates
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the Centenary Edition
  • Part One: THE LOGICAL
  • 1 Esprit de Corps
  • 2 The Spirit of Truth
  • 3 New Men
  • 4 The Relay Race
  • BRIDGE PASSAGE
  • Part Two. THE PHYSICAL
  • 5 Running Up
  • 6 Mercury Delayed
  • 7 The Greenwood Tree
  • 8 On the Beach
  • Postscript
  • Author's Note
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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