Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Genuine Products Guarantee
Genuine Products Guarantee
We guarantee 100% genuine products, and if proven otherwise, we will compensate you with 10 times the product's cost.
Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Products are generally ready for dispatch within 1 day and typically reach you in 3 to 5 days.
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Author: Hodges, Andrew
Brand: Vintage Books
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 768
Release Date: 27-09-1992
Part Number: 9780099116417
Details: Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.
Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.
EAN: 9780099116417
Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.5 inches
Languages: English
