Andrew Hodges

Broschiertes Buch

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Beschreibung

Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War.

Autor

Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780099116417
• ISBN-10: 0099116413
• Artikelnr.: 21087393

Rezensionen

"One of the finest scientific biographies ever written." - Jim Holt, New Yorker