Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, Douglas Hofstadter
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Book Summary Author: Andrew Hodges, Douglas Hofstadter Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2000-03-01 ISBN: 0802775802 Number of pages: 608 Publisher: Walker & Company |
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Book Reviews of the Alan Turing: The Enigma
Customer Review: interesting portrait of a compelling misfit
Summary: 4 Stars
The book is well titled as the real Alan Turing was an enigma to many of those who knew him and perhaps even to himself. It is another example of how genius moves to its own rhythms and manages to get noticed in spite of itself. Turing is, more than anyone else, the father of the modern computer, a man who could visualize something which did not even exist. It was his vision that eventually came to be the most powerful innovation in the last half century. Hodges book explores Turing's entire life and illuminates the context in which apparently arcane and irregular thinking came to have profound ramifications at the right moment and time.