Alan M. Turing [electronic resource] / Sara Turing ; with a foreword by Martin Davis and an afterword by John Turing.
2012
QA29.T8 T8 2012eb
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Alan M. Turing [electronic resource] / Sara Turing ; with a foreword by Martin Davis and an afterword by John Turing.
Author
Turing, Sara, 1881-1976.
Edition
Centenary ed.
ISBN
9781139337083 (electronic bk.)
1139337084 (electronic bk.)
9781139105736 (electronic bk.)
1139105736 (electronic bk.)
9781107020580
1107020581
1139337084 (electronic bk.)
9781139105736 (electronic bk.)
1139105736 (electronic bk.)
9781107020580
1107020581
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 169 p.) : ill.
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QA29.T8 T8 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
510.92
Summary
"'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence and computational biology have become better appreciated. To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography is enriched by a new foreword by Martin Davis and a never-before-published memoir by Alan's older brother. The contrast between this memoir and the original biography reveals tensions and sheds new light on Turing's relationship with his family, and on the man himself"-- Provided by publisher.
"So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet someone who was barely known beyond mathematical corridors till the revelations in the 1970s. It was then that Alan Turing's critical contributions to the breaking of the German Enigma code, along with the circumstances of his suicide at the height of his powers, became widely known. From the rather odd, precocious, gauche boy through an adolescence in which his mathematical ability began to blossom, to the achievements of his maturity, the story of Turing's life fascinates. In the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence and computational biology have become better appreciated. To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography, unavailable for many years, is enriched by a new foreword by Martin Davis and a never-before published memoir by Alan's older brother, which sheds new light on Alan's relationship with his family, and on the man himself"-- Provided by publisher.
"So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet someone who was barely known beyond mathematical corridors till the revelations in the 1970s. It was then that Alan Turing's critical contributions to the breaking of the German Enigma code, along with the circumstances of his suicide at the height of his powers, became widely known. From the rather odd, precocious, gauche boy through an adolescence in which his mathematical ability began to blossom, to the achievements of his maturity, the story of Turing's life fascinates. In the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence and computational biology have become better appreciated. To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography, unavailable for many years, is enriched by a new foreword by Martin Davis and a never-before published memoir by Alan's older brother, which sheds new light on Alan's relationship with his family, and on the man himself"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Family background
Childhood and early boyhood
At Sherborne School
At Cambridge
At the graduate college, Princeton
Some characteristics
War work in the foreign office
At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington
Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine
Broadcasts and intelligent machinery
Morphogenesis
Relaxation
Last days and some tributes
Computing machinery
Theory of morphogenesis considered.
Childhood and early boyhood
At Sherborne School
At Cambridge
At the graduate college, Princeton
Some characteristics
War work in the foreign office
At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington
Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine
Broadcasts and intelligent machinery
Morphogenesis
Relaxation
Last days and some tributes
Computing machinery
Theory of morphogenesis considered.