Alan Turing: The Enigma The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
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Biographical note
Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
Time Out
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind
New York Times Book Review
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
New Yorker
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind…it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one
- Douglas Hofstadter, New York Times Book Review
One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
Andrew Hodge’s book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
Time Out
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
New Yorker
Save your money for the forthcoming new edition of <i>Alan Turing: The Enigma </i>by Andrew Hodges, regarded by many as one of the greatest biographies of anyone, let along Turing
- Robert Matthews, BBC Focus Magazine
This book stands the test of time. It is a labour of love…compelling
Energy and Technology
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
But his vision went far beyond this achievement. 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.
Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. 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 Knightley
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.