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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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, 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. |
Alternate Titles: | The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer |
Type: | Nonfiction |
Author: | David Leavitt |
Published: | 2016 |
Genre: | Biography |
Tags: | Publication, Book, 20th Century, Math, Computer, Computer Science, Biography, Math, Computer, Alan Turing |
Read: | 2016 |
Library: | Titles M (Library Box Cross Ref) |
Amazon: | Search for book The Man Who Knew Too Much |
Goodreads: | "The Man Who Knew Too Much" |
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