Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

Author: Hodges, AndrewBrand: Princeton University PressEdition: RevisedBinding: PaperbackFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 768Release Date: 10-11-2014Part Number: 41050321Details: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It 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