Book Detail

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

ISBN: 9780393329094

Contributors: Leavitt, David (Author)

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Binding: Paperback (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $15.95

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Description

Alan Turing helped break the Nazis' Enigma code and became a champion of artificial intelligence. An openly gay man, he was sentenced to chemical castration and committed suicide. Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor.

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