The book that inspired the film the imitation game media tiein by hodges, andrew isbn. Turing introduced his abstract turing machines in his first major publication, on computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem 1936. See more ideas about alan turing, enigma machine, the imitation game. Alan mathison turing 19121954 was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. When i first got interested in computers all you really heard about was the turing test the idea of testing if a computer could think by having a conversation by teletype and seeing if you could. While studying at cambridge he began work in predicate logic that led to a proof 1937 that some mathematical problems are not susceptible to solution by automated computation. The best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 20 it is to alan turing godfather of the digital universe, voracious reader, tragic hero of his eras inhumane bigotry that we owe an enormous amount of todays givens, including my writing this very sentence and your reading it. See more ideas about alan turing, bletchley park and history. The book that inspired the film the imitation game. Leech is now regularly described as the architect of turings pardon and subsequently the alan turing law which went on to secure pardons for 75,000 other men and women convicted of similar crimes. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. This then inspired the awardwinning film the imitation game, released in 2014, starring benedict cumberbatch as alan turing. Turing and the computer by paul strathern goodreads.
Turing, father of the modern computer rutherford journal. See more ideas about alan turing, enigma machine and the imitation game. It is a useful primer for andrew hodges biography alan turing. A book from alan turing and a mysterious piece of paper. Dermot turing who recently wrote a biography of alan turing told me about granny turing aka sara turing, whose house apparently shared a garden gate with his familys, and many other things about alan turing. But he said the family never had any of alan turing s books. List of books and articles about alan turing online. Since the completion of his computer, turing has been written about numerous times, the most notable being in the book alan turing. Alan turing is a name that has grown in stature over the years. Alan turing scrapbook the enigma war alan turing, segunda guerra.
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