Turing, Dermot – Alan Turing Decoded A Biography (History Press, 2015)
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Name: Turing, Dermot – Alan Turing Decoded A Biography (History Press, 2015)
Format: epub
Size: 12.99 MB
Book:
Title: Prof
Author: Dermot Turing
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9780711246775
Total pages: 32 str.
Description:
Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country and it has become hard to dientangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the sterotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname ‘Prof’ was given by his codebreaking friends at Bletchley Park. Now, Alan Turing’s nephew, Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing’s life and creativity, and the later creation of a legend. For the first time it is possible to disclose the real character behind the cipher-text: how did Alan’s childhood experiences influence the man? Who were the influential figures in Alan’s formative years? How did his creative ideas evolve? Was he really a solitary, asocial genius? What was his wartime work after 1942, and why was it…
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