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Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing The Enigma Book PDF

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Random House
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448137817

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Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges Pdf

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley 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.

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing The Enigma Book PDF

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400865123

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Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times–bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program--all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

Alan Turing: His Work and Impact

S. Barry Cooper,J. van Leeuwen
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Author : S. Barry Cooper,J. van Leeuwen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780123870124

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Alan Turing: His Work and Impact by S. Barry Cooper,J. van Leeuwen Pdf

In this 2013 winner of the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2013 PROSE Awards for Mathematics and Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics, also from the AAP, readers will find many of the most significant contributions from the four-volume set of the Collected Works of A. M. Turing. These contributions, together with commentaries from current experts in a wide spectrum of fields and backgrounds, provide insight on the significance and contemporary impact of Alan Turing's work. Offering a more modern perspective than anything currently available, Alan Turing: His Work and Impact gives wide coverage of the many ways in which Turing's scientific endeavors have impacted current research and understanding of the world. His pivotal writings on subjects including computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, morphogenesis, and more display continued relevance and insight into today's scientific and technological landscape. This collection provides a great service to researchers, but is also an approachable entry point for readers with limited training in the science, but an urge to learn more about the details of Turing's work. 2013 winner of the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2013 PROSE Awards for Mathematics and Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics, also from the AAP Named a 2013 Notable Computer Book in Computing Milieux by Computing Reviews Affordable, key collection of the most significant papers by A.M. Turing Commentary explaining the significance of each seminal paper by preeminent leaders in the field Additional resources available online

The Annotated Turing

Charles Petzold
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Author : Charles Petzold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470229057

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The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold Pdf

Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming. The book expands Turing’s original 36-page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing’s statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing’s own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41.

Turing's Vision

Chris Bernhardt
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Author : Chris Bernhardt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262034548

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Turing's Vision by Chris Bernhardt Pdf

In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the general reader. Bernhardt argues that the strength of Turing's theory is its simplicity, and that, explained in a straightforward manner, it is eminently understandable by the nonspecialist. As Marvin Minsky writes, "The sheer simplicity of the theory's foundation and extraordinary short path from this foundation to its logical and surprising conclusions give the theory a mathematical beauty that alone guarantees it a permanent place in computer theory." Bernhardt begins with the foundation and systematically builds to the surprising conclusions. He also views Turing's theory in the context of mathematical history, other views of computation (including those of Alonzo Church), Turing's later work, and the birth of the modern computer. In the paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," Turing thinks carefully about how humans perform computation, breaking it down into a sequence of steps, and then constructs theoretical machines capable of performing each step. Turing wanted to show that there were problems that were beyond any computer's ability to solve; in particular, he wanted to find a decision problem that he could prove was undecidable. To explain Turing's ideas, Bernhardt examines three well-known decision problems to explore the concept of undecidability; investigates theoretical computing machines, including Turing machines; explains universal machines; and proves that certain problems are undecidable, including Turing's problem concerning computable numbers.

Alan Turing's Manchester

Jonathan Swinton
Alan Turing s Manchester Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Swinton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781803990750

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Alan Turing's Manchester by Jonathan Swinton Pdf

Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing's involvement in the world's first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality. Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?

The Case of Alan Turing

Eric Liberge,Arnaud Delalande
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Author : Eric Liberge,Arnaud Delalande
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781551526522

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The Case of Alan Turing by Eric Liberge,Arnaud Delalande Pdf

Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany’s Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the “bombe” which descrambled the German navy’s messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise. Despite his heroics, however, Turing led a secret life as a homosexual; haunted by the accidental death of a young love, he got briefly engaged to Joan Clarke, a fellow cryptanalyst, until he told her the truth. After a young man with whom he was involved stole money from him, he went to the police, where he confessed his homosexuality; he was charged with gross indecency, and only avoided prison after agreeing to undergo chemical castration. Tragically, he committed suicide two years later, by ingesting cyanide through a poisoned apple. The particulars of Turing’s achievements were only made known in 2012, following the release of once-classified papers. Authors Liberge and Delalande used this information to create a biography that is scientifically rigorous yet understandable for the lay reader. It’s also a meticulous depiction of World War II, and an intimate portrayal of a gay man living in an intolerant world. Delving deeper into Turing’s life than The Imitation Game, this graphic novel is a fascinating portrait of this brilliant, complicated, and troubled man.

Alan M. Turing

Sara Turing
Alan M Turing Book PDF

Author : Sara Turing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107020580

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Alan M. Turing by Sara Turing Pdf

Containing never-before-published material, this fascinating account sheds new light on one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

Alan Turing

Nigel Cawthorne
Alan Turing Book PDF

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784280420

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Alan Turing by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing. Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the single biggest contribution to victory against Nazi Germany. Unheralded during his lifetime, Turing is now recognized as the father of modern computer science and as possessing one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Drawing on original source material, interviews and photographs, this book explores Turing's groundbreaking work as well as revealing the private side of a complex and unlikely national hero.

Alan Turing's Systems of Logic

Andrew W. Appel
Alan Turing s Systems of Logic Book PDF

Author : Andrew W. Appel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691164731

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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic by Andrew W. Appel Pdf

A facsimile edition of Alan Turing's influential Princeton thesis Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912–1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world—including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, and Stephen Kleene—were at Princeton in the 1930s, and they were working on ideas that would lay the groundwork for what would become known as computer science. This book presents a facsimile of the original typescript of Turing's fascinating and influential 1938 Princeton PhD thesis, one of the key documents in the history of mathematics and computer science. The book also features essays by Andrew Appel and Solomon Feferman that explain the still-unfolding significance of the ideas Turing developed at Princeton. A work of philosophy as well as mathematics, Turing's thesis envisions a practical goal—a logical system to formalize mathematical proofs so they can be checked mechanically. If every step of a theorem could be verified mechanically, the burden on intuition would be limited to the axioms. Turing's point, as Appel writes, is that "mathematical reasoning can be done, and should be done, in mechanizable formal logic." Turing's vision of "constructive systems of logic for practical use" has become reality: in the twenty-first century, automated "formal methods" are now routine. Presented here in its original form, this fascinating thesis is one of the key documents in the history of mathematics and computer science.

Alan Turing

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Alan Turing Book PDF

Author : Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9780711246775

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Alan Turing by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Pdf

Alan Turing tells the inspiring story of the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker

Christof Teuscher
Alan Turing Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker Book PDF

Author : Christof Teuscher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662056424

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Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker by Christof Teuscher Pdf

Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed "hypercomputation".

Natural Wonders

Edwin Tenney Brewster
Natural Wonders Book PDF

Author : Edwin Tenney Brewster
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9356707464

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Natural Wonders by Edwin Tenney Brewster Pdf

Natural Wonders, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

A Life Story: Alan Turing

Joanna Nadin
A Life Story Alan Turing Book PDF

Author : Joanna Nadin
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781407197425

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A Life Story: Alan Turing by Joanna Nadin Pdf

Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary life of code-cracking genius, Alan Turing. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the reader directly into the lives of modern society's most influential figures. With striking black-and-white illustration along with timelines and never-heard-before facts. Also in the series: Katherine Johnson: A Life Story Stephen Hawking: A Life Story Rosalind Franklin: A Life Story

Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

Juliet Floyd,Alisa Bokulich
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Author : Juliet Floyd,Alisa Bokulich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319532806

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Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing by Juliet Floyd,Alisa Bokulich Pdf

Chapters “Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate” and “Turing and the History of Computer Music” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.