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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54) saved the Allies from the Nazis and invented the computer and artificial intelligence - all before his suicide at age forty-one. Andrew Hodges tells how Turing's ideas laid the foundation for the modern computer, and how he took a leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II. This is also the tragic account of a man who was persecuted 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, this is the definitive biography of an extraordinary mind and life.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences

• Full title: Alan Turing - The Enigma - The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition
• Author: Andrew Hodges
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 776
• EAN: 9780691164724
• ISBN: 9780691164724
• ID: 06586915
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 749 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 126 × 55 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. November 2014

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