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OverviewAlan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications. But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Hodges , Gordon Griffin , Audible StudiosPublisher: Bolinda Publishing Imprint: Bolinda/Audible Audio Edition: Unabridged edition ISBN: 9781486285815ISBN 10: 1486285813 Publication Date: 01 April 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it's also the most readable biography I've picked up in some time.' -- Time Out 'A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind ... it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'One of the finest scientific biographies ever written.' -- The New Yorker Author InformationAndrew Hodges is a mathematician, an author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Gordon Griffin has had a long and successful career as an actor in theatre and television. He's appeared in TV classics ranging from Family at War to The Crown and in the theatre has played in Shakespeare at Chichester and was in the very first national tour of the musical Godspell. He's presented Play School and sung on BBC tv's successful music-hall series The Good Old Days. But it's as a multi-award winning audiobook reader that Gordon is best known. He has over 950 recordings to his credit ranging from Dickens, Hardy and Orwell to Hilary Mantel, Melvyn Bragg and Chris Ryan. For his services to audiobooks he received an MBE from The Queen in the Birthday Honours of 2017. His autobiography Speaking Volumes was published in 2019 followed in 2020 by the audio version read of course by Gordon himself! Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |