Alan Turing Enigma by Hodges Andrew, First Edition (27 results)

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 736 pp., New preface by the author; foreword by Douglas Hofstadter.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. The Number Line Indicates A First Printing Of This Princeton University Press Mass Market Edition (First Thus). Includes Index And Chapter Notes. Black Pictorial Wraps. Minor Wear.

Trade Paperback, illus. Condition: New. 1st Edition Stated. Book New. NO markings of ANY kind. 1st printing of this edition. ; 736 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. A tight, square copy with very light wear at the edges.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ issued. 1st Paperback Edition. First Printing. [12], 587, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover and spine edges worn, some creasing and scratches to covers, ink name inside front flyleaf. Despite his leading role in breaking the secret German Enigma code during World War II, and his later role in the development of the modern computer, Alan Turing never attained the recognition he deserved in his lifetime. This eccentric genius was persecuted for his homosexuality. Andrew Philip Hodges (born 1949) is a British mathematician, author and emeritus senior research fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. Hodges was Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of London in 1975. Hodges is best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing. The book was critically acclaimed when it was published in 1983, with Donald Michie in New Scientist calling it "marvelous and faithful". In June 2002, it was chosen by Michael Holroyd for inclusion in a list of 50 'essential' books in The Guardian. Alan Turing: The Enigma formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stageplay Breaking the Code, which was adapted by for Television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was made into the 2014 film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. The script for The Imitation Game won Graham Moore an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards in 2015. He is an emeritus tutorial fellow in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was appointed Dean of Wadham College from start of the 2011/2012 academic year. Derived from a Kirkus review: The conflicted life of "an ordinary English homosexual atheist mathematician": Alan Turing (1912-1954), of cryptanalysis and computer fame. From his own mathematics and gay-rights background, Hedges reconstructs Turing's discoveries and his dilemma in a kind of dynamic tension--seeing Turing, with considerable subtlety, as an intellectual and sexual individualist. In describing Turing's mathematical coups at Cambridge in the 1930s, and his work on the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park, Hedges deals matter-of-factly with abstract concepts and technical detail. The pages are populated, not just for color, with the likes of von Neumann, Wittgenstein, and Michael Polanyi. But there is also an acute sense of the surrounding, changing world--and, cumulatively, some striking formulations. Turing publicly announces, in 1947, that no line separates the "unconscious automatic machine" and the "higher realms of the intellect." The personal story is feelingful and restrained. Turing's first, great love died at 19; his "gentle advances" were often rebuffed, without ill-feeling; he made no secret of his "tendencies," except to his family; he was once engaged (to a woman undaunted by those tendencies); by the 1950s, he was part of England's "network of flashing eyes." And in 1952, rashly reporting a burglary involving a young lover, he was charged with "gross indecency"; pleaded guilty--evincing no guilt; and accepted organo-hormone treatment in lieu of prison. In 1954, seemingly himself, he committed suicide. Sophisticated and nuanced.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition, second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor stain on the edges. Hinge is a bit loose. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Printing thus. xvii, [3], 587, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Douglas Hostadter. New Preface. Andrew Hodges (born 1949) is a British mathematician and author. Hodges is best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing. Critically acclaimed at the time - Donald Michie in New Scientist called it "marvellous and faithful" - the book was chosen by Michael Holroyd as part of a list of 50 'essential' books in The Guardian, 1 June 2002. Alan Turing: The Enigma formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stageplay Breaking the Code, which was adapted by for Television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was later made into the 2014 film The Imitation Game directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. The script for The Imitation Game won Graham Moore an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was a pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. He led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised techniques for breaking German ciphers, including an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. It has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by up to four years and saved over fourteen million lives. After the war ,at Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory; he helped develop the Manchester computers.

Trade paperback. Condition: fair to good. 1st Paperback Edition. First Printing. [12], 587, [1] pages, wraps, illus., Author's Note, notes, index. Cover has some where and soiling. Andrew Hodges (born 1949) is a British mathematician and author. Hodges was born in London. Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory, which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose. Hodges is best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing. Critically acclaimed at the time â" Donald Michie in New Scientist called it "marvellous and faithful" â" the book was chosen by Michael Holroyd as part of a list of 50 'essential' books in The Guardian, 1 June 2002. Alan Turing: The Enigma formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stageplay Breaking the Code, which was adapted by for Television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was later made into the 2014 film The Imitation Game directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. The script for The Imitation Game won Graham Moore an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was a pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic; it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by as many as four years and saved over fourteen million lives. After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when such behavior was still a criminal act in the UK. He accepted treatment with DES (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is equally consistent with accidental poisoning. In 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way he was treated." Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American. A somewhat worn first American printing in a nearly complete but worn dust jacket with various small tears and scrapes. The book appears to have been opened too wide in several spots but the pages are not loose. The spine is wrinkled and creased. A decent working copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Preliminary Page entitled Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired The Film The Imitation Game; Praise for Alan Turing: The Enigma; List of Plates; Foreword by Douglas Hofstader; Preface; Postscript; AUthor's Note; Notes; Acknowledgments; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and black-and-white diagrams. First Edition thus: First edition, first printing by the Princeton University Press. "It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician ALan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nizis and invented the computer and artificial intelligence -- all before his suicide at age forty-one. Andrew Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary ideas laid the foundation for the modern comuter, and how he took a leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. This is also the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was arrested and force to undergo a humiliating treatment program -- all for trying to live hoestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, this acclaimed biography is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life." -- from the rear outer cover. "One of the finest scientific biographies ever written." -- Jim Holt, New Yorker. "One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic, and beautifully told." -- Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 2014 : 1st. Paperback Edition : Vintage Books : Very Thick Format At 736 Pages : This Copy Is New : However , We've Downgraded It Because There Is A Light Bottom Corner Crease To The Back Cover : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Foxing on the edges. Binding is a bit exposed. Text and pictures are clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Pbk. edition. 4to. 587 pp. Photographic illustrations. Softcover binding, very good condition. (101995).

First edition thus. 12mo. [xxxii], 736 pp. Photographic illustrations. Softcover binding, very good condition. (10517).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 586 pages all original softbound 13 x 20 cm (image 1). Contents: image 2. This copy with three newspaper articles loosely inserted as follows: 1. "Sneak Thief Walks off with Enigma Coding Machine". 24 column inches cut from The Daily Mail for Monday April 3rd 2000 (image 3)., 2. "Banbury's Role in Winning War". 24 column inches cut from The Bambury Guardian of Thursday June 15th 2000 (image 4)., 3. "Truth About Enigma, by Someone who was there.". 21 column inches cut from The Daily Mail for Friday June 23rd 2000 (image 5).

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. 587 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards (light fading on the edges). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First American Edition. A very good(+) copy, lacking the dust wrapper. Biography of the man who broke the German code in World War II.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Screenplay distributed to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for 7 more Oscars, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design. ; Tight, clean and crisp. The book appears unread and looks New. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. As New. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 117 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 587 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$22.50." Rubbing with moderate tearing along edges of dust jacket. Light soiling to bottom corner of front cover and to rear inner flap. Mild general shelf wear to boards. Staining to edges of textblock. Light age toning throughout interior. Shelved in WWII. 1404839. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bookplate to front pastedown states "The Library / Bolton Institute of Higher Education / Deane Campus, Deane Road, Bolton," overstamped "Withdrawn." There are also some library numbers in pen to copyright page, and small bar-code labels to FFE and rear pastedown. All (closed) page edges also bear library rubber-stamps, as does the title page. This volume looks very nice in its unclipped, "near-fine" original dust jacket, which was protected in an earlier library dust jacket protector which blessedly was NOT glued down. However, it appears to us that the blank Free Front Endpaper has been neatly cut out and discarded, leaving insufficient overlap of paper to properly repair the front hinge. The traditional means of securing this hinge (which is still holding) against further stress would be to run up a strip of archival white "library tape," but we have not done so. Copyright page states "First published 1983 by Burnett Books Limited / in association with the Hutchinson Publishing Group. . . London." Dust jacket front flap priced "L18-00 net / in UK only." Copies of this small first printing of the celebrated biography of the celebrated mathematical genius credited with breaking the World War Two German "Enigma" code -- but later bedeviled by his own countrymen for his unapologetic homosexuality -- are moderately hard-to-find. Basis for the 2014 film "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, which won an Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay." The author teaches mathematics at Oxford. Alan Turing ( (1912-1954) contributed enormously to winning the war against the U-boat, largely invented the modern electronic computer, and -- (despite his war service) was arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo humiliating "treatment" for his homosexuality -- committing suicide at age 42. Totals 587 pp. including index. Reduced from $600.As with all our items priced higher than $90, thus book will be shipped "signature required.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This "good-plus" volume presents nicely in its unclipped, "near-fine" original dust jacket. Copyright page states "First published 1983 by Burnett Books Limited / in association with the Hutchinson Publishing Group. . . London." Dust jacket front flap priced "L18-00 net / in UK only." Laid in are multiple newspaper clippings of original reviews of this book (presumably 1983), one by mathematician Peter Hilton, who worked with Turing at Bletchley Park as an undergraduate. Also laid in is a handwritten 1983 letter from author Hodges to Sir John Barnes, advising him that this book is forthcoming "this autumn." Bookplate of Cynthia & Sir John Barnes, Hampton Lodge, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, to front pastedown. Copies of this small first printing of the celebrated biography of the celebrated mathematical genius credited with breaking the World War Two German "Enigma" code -- but later bedeviled by his own countrymen for his unapologetic homosexuality -- are moderately hard-to-find. Copies with autograph letters from the author, PREDATING PUBLICATION, much more so. Basis for the 2014 film "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, which won an Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay." The author teaches mathematics at Oxford. Alan Turing ( (1912-1954) contributed enormously to winning the war against the U-boat, largely invented the modern electronic computer, and (despite his war service) was arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo humiliating "treatment" for his homosexuality -- committing suicide at age 42. Totals 587 pp. including index. Reduced from $1,750. Inscribed by Author(s).

Bollati Boringhieri (La cultura scientifica); 1991; 9788833906393; Rilegato con sovracoperta; 22 x 14 cm; pp. 762; Traduzione di D. Mezzacapa. Prima edizione. ; leggeri segni d'uso ai bordi della sovracopertina, interno ottimo; Molto buono (come da foto). ; La vita di Alan Turing è stata fino a oggi avvolta dal mistero, anche per chi sa tutto delle sue scoperte. Autore, nel 1936, del manifesto del nuovo ordine tecnologico (On Computable Numbers), il matematico inglese spiegò la natura e i limiti teorici delle macchine logiche prima che fosse costruito un solo computer. Ma Turing fu anche uno di coloro che durante la Seconda guerra mondiale avevano decifrato i codici della macchina crittografica tedesca, l'Enigma, ed era a conoscenza di importanti informazioni riguardanti la sicurezza nazionale. Quanto al fatto che si fosse tolta la vita tragicamente, Turing fu trovato sul letto, sereno, morto per avvelenamento da cianuro. Nessuno fece indagini, trattandosi di un caso molto evidente di suicidio chi poteva avere interesse a ucciderlo o a inscenare un falso suicidio? Era un matematico, non una spia. Lo scienziato però non lasciò messaggi, anzi, il giorno della sua morte aveva preso impegni per i giorni successivi e aveva già fatto progetti per le imminenti vacanze estive. Tra i suoi colleghi di Cambridge circolava la voce che fosse perseguitato; di certo lo era stato per la sua omosessualità, ma in modo - tutto sommato - abbastanza blando, e la versione ufficiale tuttora non convince Probabilmente - sostiene Hodges - Turing era diventato un rischio per la sicurezza dei servizi segreti inglesi e americani, con i suoi incontrollabili viaggi all'estero e i suoi contatti con giovani sconosciuti. L'autore di questa accurata biografia, oltre a mettere in luce l'itinerario scientifico dell'inventore del computer, si propone anche come spy story e fa emergere particolari sconosciuti che fanno pensare a quello di Turing come a un altro caso Oppenheimer: lo scienziato sacrificato sull'altare della sicurezza nazionale ; L'immagine se disponibile, corrisponde alla copia in vendita. Italiano.

Hardcover. First US edition. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 587pp. First American edition with numberline beginning in 1. Brown cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Crease to front jacket flap. Light edgewear to the jacket. Some discoloration to the cloth spine. Inspiration for the 2014 movie "The Imitation Game" Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1983. 587 pages with index. First edition, first printing with full numberline including 1. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Minor soiling to page edges. Slight cocking to spine. Original DJ with $22.50 price intact on flap. DJ shows a couple of small closed edge tears and minor edge-rubbing. The basis of the award winning film The Imitation Game. VG with noted flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Alan Turing: The Enigma is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization. . Slight fading to spine of dust wrapper small nicks to spine of dust wrapper, previous owners neat inscription. Internally very good Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 71494. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Just a good to very good copy of the first printing with a complete number line. The jacket with chips and wear to the edges and the book well read with wear to corners and edges and fading to the cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Simon & Schuster. New York.1983. 587 pages with index. First edition, first printing with full numberline including 1. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Book is fine wiith a touch of minor sunning at edge (barely.) Original DJ with $22.50 price intact on flap. DJ shows light rubbing on crown, rear, and flap fold tips with a small closed tear on rear. The basis of the award winning film The Imitation Game. Near Fine/VG+.

A first edition, first printing published by Burnett Books in 1983. A near fine book in a near fine unclipped wrapper - a touch rubbed to the corners and pushed to the head of the spine. Andrew Hodges' biography Alan Turing: The Enigma provided the primary source material for the critically acclaimed 2014 film The Imitation Game. The screenplay drew extensively from Hodges' meticulous research to depict Turing's crucial work at Bletchley Park cracking the Enigma code during World War II, as well as his subsequent arrest and chemical castration for being homosexual. The book was also the basis for an earlier 1986 play and 1996 television film, both titled Breaking the Code.