Alan Turing: The Enigma

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hodges Klappentext A new edition of Hodges's classic biography of Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code and was the father of the modern computer. With a new preface. Zusammenfassung Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War.

Préface
The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution - now an Oscar-winning film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley

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Andrew Hodges

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A new edition of Hodges's classic biography of Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code and was the father of the modern computer. With a new preface.

Résumé
Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War.