Alan Turing

The Book That Inspired the Film 'The Imitation Game'

Pages: 768
Published: 1994
Language: English

Synopsis

A definitive biography of Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptanalyst whose work at Bletchley Park during World War II helped crack the Enigma code and lay the foundations for modern computer science. Andrew Hodges traces Turing's intellectual life from his early mathematical brilliance through his wartime service to his tragic final years.