Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired The Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

Hodges, Andrew

ISBN 10: 069116472X / ISBN 13: 9780691164724

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U. S. A., 2014

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired The Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U. S. A.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069116472X
• ISBN 13: 9780691164724
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Thus
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley

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 New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.

Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936—the concept of a universal machine—laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program—all 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, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

About the Author

Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford. Douglas Hofstadter is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington.