Alan Turing

The Enigma

Andrew Hodges, Gordon Griffin, Audible Studios

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BOLINDA AUDIO
01 April 2015

Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: science, technology & engineering; Humanities

Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.

But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented 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 into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.

By: Andrew Hodges
Producer: Audible Studios
Read by: Gordon Griffin
Imprint: BOLINDA AUDIO
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781486285815
ISBN 10: 1486285813
Publication Date: 01 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Alan Turing: The Enigma

'Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it's also the most readable biography I've picked up in some time.' -- Time Out 'A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind ... it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'One of the finest scientific biographies ever written.' -- The New Yorker