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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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