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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Verlag:
W. W. Norton & Company Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: VZ3ERDV
EAN: 9780393329094
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Beschreibung
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. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- David Leavitt
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2006
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 336