TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodges,Andrew
AU  - Hodges,Andrew
AU  - Hofstadter,Douglas
TI  - Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition 
SN  - 9781400865123
U1  - 510.92 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alan Turing
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Andrew Hodges
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Automatic Computing Engine
KW  - Back to Methuselah
KW  - Bertrand Russell
KW  - Bit
KW  - Bletchley Park
KW  - Bombe
KW  - Buoy
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Cipher
KW  - Civilisation (TV series)
KW  - Claude Shannon
KW  - Computable number
KW  - Computation
KW  - Computer
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Cryptanalysis
KW  - Cryptography
KW  - Diagram
KW  - Differential equation
KW  - Donald Michie
KW  - E. M. Forster
KW  - EDVAC
KW  - ENIAC
KW  - Edward Carpenter
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Enigma machine
KW  - Entscheidungsproblem
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Fellow of the Royal Society
KW  - Ferranti
KW  - Fountain pen
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Hut 8
KW  - Indian Civil Service (British India)
KW  - Instance (computer science)
KW  - Instruction set
KW  - John von Neumann
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Mathematician
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Punched card
KW  - Punched tape
KW  - Pure mathematics
KW  - Quantity
KW  - Real number
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Result
KW  - Robin Gandy
KW  - Science
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Sequential analysis
KW  - Sherborne School
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Teleprinter
KW  - Theorem
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Turing machine
KW  - Typewriter
KW  - U-boat
KW  - Universal Turing machine
KW  - Wiring (development platform)
KW  - Writing
KW  - Year
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List Of Plates --; Foreword --; Preface --; 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; restricted access
N2  - A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400865123?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400865123
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400865123/original
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