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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

Leavitt, David

Paperback

Series: Great Discoveries, Book 0

Biographies GeneralGeneral MathematicsGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0393329097
ISBN13: 9780393329094
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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