Enigma

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691164724

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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.

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mathematicians
ISBN : OCLC:1285466151

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Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges Pdf

Author : Hugh Brewster,Alan Barnard
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810970996

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Dinosaurs in Your Backyard by Hugh Brewster,Alan Barnard Pdf

Discusses species of dinosaurs found on the continent of North America 70 million years ago.

Author : Dermot Turing
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750989671

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X, Y and Z by Dermot Turing Pdf

December, 1932 In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs top-secret documents – the operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lays the foundations for the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. The co-operation between France, Britain and Poland is given the cover-name 'X, Y & Z'. December, 1942 It is the middle of World War Two. The Polish code-breakers have risked their lives to continue their work inside Vichy France, even as an uncertain future faces their homeland. Now they are on the run from the Gestapo. People who know the Enigma secret are not supposed to be in the combat zone, so MI6 devises a plan to exfiltrate them. If it goes wrong, if they are caught, the consequences could be catastrophic for the Allies. Based on original research and newly released documents, X, Y & Z is the exhilarating story of those who risked their lives to protect the greatest secret of World War Two.

Author : J. Bogousslavsky
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783318026474

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Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma by J. Bogousslavsky Pdf

Hysteria is probably the condition which best illustrates the tight connection between neurology and psychiatry. While it has been known since antiquity, its renewed studies during the 19th century were mainly due to the work of Jean-Martin Charcot and his school in Paris. This publication focuses on these early developments, in which immediate followers of Charcot, including Babinski, Freud, Janet, Richer, and Gilles de la Tourette were involved. Hysteria is commonly considered as a condition that often leads to spectacular manifestations (e.g. convulsions, palsies), although both structural and functional imaging data confirm the absence of consistent and reproducible structural lesions. While numerous hypotheses have tried to explain the occurrence of this striking phenomenon, the precise nosology and pathophysiology of hysteria remain elusive. This volume offers an enthralling and informative read for neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, as well as for general physicians, historians, and everyone interested in the developments of one of the most intriguing conditions in medicine.

Author : Michael Bar-Zohar
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039813717

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The Enigma by Michael Bar-Zohar Pdf

Reknowned undercover agent in World War II is promised his freedom if he reenter's Nazi-occupied Paris to steal Germany's greatest wartime secret.

Author : Teresa Flavin
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763662066

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The Blackhope Enigma by Teresa Flavin Pdf

"Recommended for lovers of mythology and monsters, mystery and magic." — School Library Journal For centuries, Blackhope Tower has been shrouded in intrigue, centering on a labyrinth and painting in the Mariner’s Chamber. When fourteen-year-old Sunni Forrest visits the tower and sees her stepbrother, Dean, disappear, seemingly into the painting itself, she must find him and risk being drawn into the heart of the Blackhope enigma. This action-packed debut follows Dean, Sunni, and her friend Blaise on a journey to the heart of an age-old mystery.

Author : Władysław Kozaczuk
Publisher : [Frederick, Md.] : University Publications of America
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Enigma cipher system
ISBN : UOM:39015054063360

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Enigma by Władysław Kozaczuk Pdf

Author : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780221236

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Enigma by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Pdf

The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked - and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501183010

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Enigma by Catherine Coulter Pdf

The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe. When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn’t realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using “John Doe” to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses him, he ups the stakes and targets another to take his experiments to the next level. It’s a race against time literally as Savich and Sherlock rush to stop him and save both present and future victims of his experiments. In the meantime, Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot must track a violent criminal through the Daniel Boone National Forest. When he escapes through a daring rescue, the agents have to find out who set his escape in motion and how it all ties into the murder of Mia Prevost, the girlfriend of the president’s Chief of Staff’s only son, Saxton Hainny. It’s international intrigue at the highest levels and they know they have to succeed or national security is compromised. Featuring Coulter’s signature “breakneck plot and magnetic characters” (Huffington Post), Enigma is a shocking thrill ride that will keep the you turning pages as fast as you can.

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501138119

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Enigma by Catherine Coulter Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter comes the heart-stopping twenty-first installment in the electrifying FBI Thriller series. After Agent Dillon Savich stops a crazy man from harming a pregnant woman, the man unexpectedly falls into a coma. Doctors discover a drug in his blood they can't identify, and his only identification is a yellow wristband marked E 2. Did this John Doe escape from a mental hospital? And why was he at the pregnant woman's house? When her newborn baby is kidnapped from the hospital, Savich realizes there's a connection between the kidnapping and the unconscious John Doe. DNA tests uncover a startling fact: his cells are unlike any other—he's an Enigma. Savich, Sherlock, and an FBI team of experts must find the kidnapped baby, uncover the link, and determine what bizarre drug was used on John Doe and, most importantly, why. Meanwhile, Liam Hennessey, aka Manta Ray, a convicted bank robber, escapes from the Federal Marshals on his transport to a federal penitentiary. He and his "handlers" are seen going into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Savich sends Agents Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot after them. Why break out this violent criminal? Or did the safe deposit box he stole and hid before he was captured contain something critically dangerous to somone? Wittier and Cabot are in hot pursuit. What they discover turns the case sideways. Coulter's latest dual-plot thriller will keep you guessing as Savich, Sherlock, Cabot, and Wittier uncover surprise after surprise in this race against the clock until the shocking conclusions.

Author : George Mattheson
Publisher : Pen It + ORM
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639843053

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Enigma by George Mattheson Pdf

In this unique memoir, a diagnosed schizophrenic takes readers inside his experience of reality blending with hallucination. George Mattheson was born in Guyana and grew up in Trinidad and Tobago before settling in the United States. At age twenty-seven, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In Enigma, Mattheson shares his experience growing up talking to the Archangel Michael and providing intelligence to the CIA. For the son of intelligence operatives, the CIA was God and Washington, DC, was God’s church. “I have been experiencing the effects of stigmata lately, so I started to write this novel the best way I know how, by sharing both truth and fiction. For the truth, you’ll have to find it on your own, but the fiction part is what I see in visions, memories, and dreams. It holds a hidden meaning for only the wise to decipher.” —George Mattheson, from Enigma

Author : Shandi Boyes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975970241

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Enigma by Shandi Boyes Pdf

The entire collection of the Engima Books.Enigma of LifeUnraveling an EnigmaEnigma: The Mystery UnmaskedEnigma: The Final Chapter

Author : Gary Osborn,James Penniston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1081237708

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The Rendlesham Enigma by Gary Osborn,James Penniston Pdf

The Rendlesham Forest Incident of December 1980, is considered by far the most significant event in UFO history. It was also a unique military-related event, having taken place in Rendlesham Forest just outside the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England - both of which had been transferred to the United States Air Force in 1951 by the British MOD (Ministry of Defence), becoming one of the largest and most important NATO complexes in Europe during the Cold War. The account given in this book is that of James W. Penniston, a Staff Sergeant at the time of the incident, who was the primary witness who led the investigation in the beginning and had 'Top-Secret clearance' - one of only eight people with Top-Secret clearance working Security at the twin bases. His credibility and honesty were highly respected throughout his years in the USAF. Jim Penniston has teamed-up with author Gary Osborn to present the definitive account of the Rendlesham Incident and the aftermath of events, just as he witnessed and experienced them from the incident itself, which began during the early morning hours of Boxing Day, December 26, 1980 up to April 2014.

Author : Maurice Freedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473820159

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Unravelling Enigma by Maurice Freedman Pdf

Seldom out of the news for long, code-breaking has had a bad time in the media so far, readers and viewers often finding it as perplexing as it is intriguing. As one of the greatest achievements of the century, code- breaking is a fascinating story, but all too often misunderstood and felt to be obscure. The author covers the story from the early code-breaking efforts through the rickety structure of the pre-war Government Code and Cypher School to Bletchley Park where a large powerful organisation arose, unscrambling thousands of secret enemy messages every day. Detailing how these amazing discoveries were actually used, taking us briefly into some of the battles of the Second World War, and in some detail the Battle of the Atlantic, when Britain was in danger of starving and where the war was nearly lost.For the first time, the code-breaking story with all its complexities is told in a straightforward and readable manner, whilst at the same time it will not fail to intrigue and astonish readers.