The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer - Paperback

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Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393329094

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by David Leavitt (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 336

Dimensions: 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

Publication Date: May 15, 2012

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