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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer (Great Discoveries) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 12: Great Discoveries

Leavitt, David

 
9780393329094: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer (Great Discoveries)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393329097 ISBN 13: 9780393329094
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Leavitt is the author of novels including The Body of Jonah Boyd and The Two Hotel Francforts, as well as story collections. The New York Public Library honored him as a Literary Lion. He teaches creative writing at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he lives.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393329097
ISBN 13 
9780393329094
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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