The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

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.

Author: David Leavitt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2006
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780393329094
ISBN10: 0393329097
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | History
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy