Andrew Hodges

Alan Turing: The Enigma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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