Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
$69.99
Subject: Biography / Autobiography
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date Published: 08-2014
ISBN: 1483037258 | EAN: 9781483037257
BasicBinding: Pre-Recorded Audio Player
Features: Unabridged
Annotation: A skillful, literate (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo 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 novelists sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanityhis eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candorand elegantly explains his work and its implications.
A skillful, literate (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo 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 novelists sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanityhis eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candorand elegantly explains his work and its implications.
| Subject: | Biography / Autobiography |
|---|---|
| Title Status | Available |
| Return Code | No |
| Quantity On Hand | 0 |
| Quantity On Order | 0 |