Download Audiobook Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges in English

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Listed as one of many important 50 books of all time in The GuardianInspired the Academy Award-nominated movie, The Imitation GameIt’s solely a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the pc and synthetic intelligence, and anticipated homosexual liberation by decades–all earlier than his suicide at age forty-one. This basic biography of the founding father of laptop science, reissued on the centenary of his beginning with a considerable new preface by the writer, is the definitive account of a rare thoughts and life.A gripping story of arithmetic, computer systems, cryptography, and gay persecution, Andrew Hodges’s acclaimed ebook captures each the inside and outer drama of Turing’s life.Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary concept of 1936–the idea of a common machine–laid the muse for the trendy laptop and the way Turing introduced the thought to sensible realization in 1945 along with his digital design. The ebook additionally tells how this work was straight associated to Turing’s main function in breaking the German Enigma ciphers throughout World Warfare II, a scientific triumph that was crucial to Allied victory within the Atlantic. On the identical time, that is the tragic story of a person who, regardless of his wartime service, was finally arrested, stripped of his safety clearance, and compelled to endure a humiliating remedy program–all for making an attempt to dwell actually in a society that outlined homosexuality as against the law.