Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition Paperback - 2014
by Andrew Hodges; Preface by Andrew Hodges; Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter
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"One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic, and beautifully told."--Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
"A captivating, compassionate portrait of a first-rate scientist who gave so much to a world that in the end cruelly rejected him. Perceptive and absorbing, Andrew Hodges's book is scientific biography at its best."--Paul Hoffman, author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
"A remarkable and admirable biography."--Simon Singh, author of The Code Book and Fermat's Enigma
"A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind.... It is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and compassionate portrait of a human being."--from the Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter
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- Title Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition
- Author Andrew Hodges; Preface by Andrew Hodges; Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Updated edition
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2014-11-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780691164724 / 069116472X
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 2.2 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 5.59 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematicians - Great Britain, Turing, Alan Mathison
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014952514
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times Book Review, 02/05/2015, Page 19
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