Alan Turing: The Enigma (eBook)

The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

Andrew Hodges (Autor)

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2014 | Updated Edition
768 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6512-3 (ISBN)

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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 (19121954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall 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 1936the concept of a universal machinelaid 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 programall 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.

Autor

Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2014
• Vorwort: Andrew Hodges, Douglas Hofstadter
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Alan Turing • Allusion • Analogy • Andrew Hodges • Astronomy • Automatic Computing Engine • Back to Methuselah • Bertrand Russell • Bit • Bletchley Park • Bombe • Buoy • Calculation • calculator • Cathode ray tube • cipher • Civilisation (TV series) • Claude Shannon • Computable number • Computation • Computer • computing • Consciousness • Cryptanalysis • cryptography • diagram • Differential analyser • differential equation • Donald Michie • EDVAC • edward carpenter • E. M. Forster • Engineering • eniac • Enigma Machine • Entscheidungsproblem • Explanation • Fellow of the Royal Society • Ferranti • Fountain pen • George Johnstone Stoney • G. H. Hardy • Gordon Welchman • Handbook • Homosexuality • Hut 8 • Indian Civil Service (British India) • Ingenuity • Instance (computer science) • Instruction set • Joan Clarke • John von Neumann • Lecture • Lunch • Mathematical Logic • mathematician • Mathematics • Max Newman • Ministry of Supply • National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) • Numerical analysis • One-time Pad • Physical law • Physiology • Plugboard • Princeton University Press • Probability • Punched card • Punched tape • Pure Mathematics • Quantity • quantum mechanics • real number • Requirement • result • ridicule • Robin Gandy • Science • Scientific Method • Scientist • sequential analysis • seriousness • Sherborne School • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Technology • Teleprinter • Theorem • theoretical physics • theory • The Other Hand • Thought • Turing Machine • typewriter • u-boat • universal turing machine • Vocoder • Wiring (development platform) • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6512-3 / 1400865123
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6512-3 / 9781400865123