Man who knew too much

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The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in 2013

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer.

To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a 'thinking machine' did not crystallise until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allied victory in the Second World War. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness.

But Turing's work was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a 'treatment' that amounted to chemical castration. Ultimately, it lead to his suicide, and it wasn't until 2013, after many years of campaigning, that he received a posthumous royal pardon.

With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candour - while elegantly explaining his work and its implications.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

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Outlines the bletchley park mathematician s efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine his contributions to cracking the nazi enigma code during world war ii and how the revelation of his homosexual 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

De val van Turing

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

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A new york times bestseller the official book behind the academy award winning film the imitation game starring benedict cumberbatch and keira knightley it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the british mathematician alan turing 1912 1954 saved the allies from the nazis invented the compu Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 juni 2007

Aantal pagina's: 336

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: David Leavitt

Hoofduitgeverij: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Originele titel: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turning and the Invention of the Computer

Editie: New title

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 24 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 110 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm

Verpakking lengte: 193 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 477 g

EAN: 9780753822005

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