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

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: November 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393329097

ISBN 13: 9780393329094

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

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: November 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393329097

ISBN 13: 9780393329094

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