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The enigma, biography of alan turing 19121954 by andrew hodges. The book was critically acclaimed when it was published in 1983, with donald michie in new scientist calling it marvellous and faithful. The enigma, the story of the british computer pioneer and codebreaker alan turing. Review turings rehabilitation from over a quartercenturys embarrassed silence was largely the result of andrew hodges s superb biography, alan turing. Sep 30, 2018 biography audiobooks andrew hodges alan turing the enigma part 02. The book that inspired the film the imitation game updated edition kindle edition by hodges, andrew, hofstadter, douglas, hodges, andrew. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It was around this time that i first heard of andrew hodges alan turing. Andrew hodges, who teaches mathematics at wadham college, university of oxford he is also an active contributor to the mathematics of. From his own mathematics and gayrights background, hedges reconstructs turings discoveries and his dilemma in a kind of dynamic tensionseeing turing, with considerable subtlety, as an intellectual and sexual individualist. Andrew hodges is tutor in mathematics at wadham college, oxford university. Andrew hodges audio books, best sellers, author bio. Andrew hodges is a british mathematician, author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Turing is most famous for his cryptanalysis work at bletchley park during the second world war.
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The enigma, is the indispensable guide to turings life and work and one of the finest biographies of a scientific genius ever written. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of turings life, andrew hodges tells how turings revolutionary idea of 1936 the 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. Andrew hodges is a writer, known for the imitation game 2014, breaking the code 1996 and horizon 1964. Nov 22, 2015 a still from the film the imitation game inspired by andrew hodgess biography alan turing.
His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. Adapted in large part from the 1983 biography alan turing. Movie about breaking the german code in wwii andrew hodges. It 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.
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