Full Product Details
Author: Andrew Hodges
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Edition: Media tie-in
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.563kg
ISBN: 9781784700089
ISBN 10: 1784700088
Pages: 768
Publication Date: 13 November 2014
Audience:
General/trade
,
Professional and scholarly
,
College/higher education
,
General
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.
Reviews
One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told * Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind * 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 * New York Times Book Review * One of the finest scientific biographies ever written * New Yorker * 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 -- Douglas Hofstadter * New York Times Book Review *
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 -- Douglas Hofstadter New York Times Book Review One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind Andrew Hodge's 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 One of the finest scientific biographies ever written New Yorker Save your money for the forthcoming new edition of Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, regarded by many as one of the greatest biographies of anyone, let along Turing -- Robert Matthews BBC Focus Magazine
One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind 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 New York Times Book Review One of the finest scientific biographies ever written New Yorker 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 -- Douglas Hofstadter New York Times Book Review
Author Information
Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.
