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Alan Turing The Enigma

Paperback • 1992 • English

Alan Turing The Enigma

By Andrew Hodges

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Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated 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 int...Show more

Biography: science, technology and medicine

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9780099116417

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Alan Turing The Enigma

Format

Paperback

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