The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) Book

A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. 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 humanityâ??his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candorâ??and elegantly explains his work and its implications.Read More

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  • 0393329097
  • 9780739471951
  • D Leavitt
  • 21 November 2006
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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