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The Man Who Knew Too Much Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer - Great Discoveries
Author: David Leavitt

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, ...  more »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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780393329094
ISBN-10: 0393329097
Publication Date: 11/20/2006
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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