The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. This New York Times –bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.Ĭapturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing's life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-the concept of a universal machine-laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades-all before his suicide at age forty-one. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence.
Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.
He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.īut his vision went far beyond this achievement. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering.
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyĪlan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War.
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