Alan Turing the enigma /

A gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practica...

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Main Author: Hodges, Andrew.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Physical Description: 587 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
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