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 creator, 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 e book captures each the internal and outer drama of Turing’s life.Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary thought of 1936–the idea of a common machine–laid the muse for the fashionable laptop and the way Turing introduced the thought to sensible realization in 1945 along with his digital design. The e book additionally tells how this work was instantly associated to Turing’s main function in breaking the German Enigma ciphers throughout World Battle II, a scientific triumph that was essential to Allied victory within the Atlantic. On the similar 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 bear a humiliating remedy program–all for attempting to reside truthfully in a society that outlined homosexuality as against the law.