Alan Turing, First Edition (78 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition; Third Printing. Great Discoveries; 5.4 X 0.8 X 8 inches; 319 pages; light foxing stains to the top exterior edge of textblock only. Light shelf wear to the back cover. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. Light fading to pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. art paper. notes and accreditations. b/w illus. Biography of the mathematician buy his nephew. Full biography of his life.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition, includes the dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1983. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with a publisher mark on the bottom page ends, and light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: New. . 2020. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. 319p., notes, further reading, index, illustrated with tables, figures and photos, fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Great Discoveries Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 2006 Norton first printing with complete number line. No marks or flaws of any kind. Fine dust jacket in new clear poly cover. Gift quality collectable. Orders shipped promptly in sturdy packaging. Unconditional return policy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 319pp. '1' in number line. Notes, pp. 281-299; Further Reading, pp. 301-303; Index, pp. 305-319. Blue boards with black spine and brilliant copper lettering. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($22.95) with Cream title box on center front cover for title and subtitle lettering in black; author name lettering in cream letters over black, below title box; thin black and white photo-portrait (detail) of Turing on left front cover (vertical strip), with vertical strip on right front cover in blue, imaging repeating lines of code; Flawless copy but for minuscule indent to jacket (NO penetration through dw or indent on book itself) atone inch down from top edge near book middle, and three tiny superficial pinpoint indents (looks like a staple endpoints) near bottom center front cover (only one has left a barely discernible indent to front cover). Solid copy, essentially New: very tight spine (as if never opened), sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy. Unread.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is a fine, as new, first edition, first printing, paperback copy, brown spine, 281 pages with index.

1st Edition. 319p., b/w illus., dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published to mark the centenary of Turing's birth originally published after his untimely death in 1959. Book near fine slight bumping to spine.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 319pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Paper covers. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Little used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. Card covers, 4to, pp.204. Illustrated. The Manchester that Alan Turing would have known in 1948 when he first arrived, through to his tragic death in 1954. Very slight signs of edge wear in places. The inside hinge in the front endpapers has a small narrow strip of surface loss for about one inch down from the top, and the seam is split for about the first half inch. . Otherwise a clean tight copy. VG.