In his early days, Turing’s education reflected the overwhelming social. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life. Alan Turing’s story was not one of family or tradition but of an isolated and autonomous mind, Hodges wrote. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. 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. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.īut his vision went far beyond this achievement.

In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyĪlan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. Hodges is best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936-the concept of a universal machine-laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. Although its not a book about the history of. The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game. No one could do a better job than Andrew Hodges, who is himself a mathematician it is truly a masterpiece. Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Get FREE shipping on Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, from.

Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges