The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
- Editore:
W W NORTON & CO
- Collana:
- Great Discoveries (Paperback)
- EAN:
9780393329094
- ISBN:
0393329097
- Pagine:
- 319
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
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