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100 1 $aLeavitt, David,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82252930
245 14 $aThe man who knew too much :$bAlan Turing and the invention of the computer /$cDavid Leavitt.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW. W. Norton,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a319 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aGreat discoveries
500 $a"Atlas books."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"One of the most important openings in the path to the modern computer was made by the British mathematician Alan Turing - remarkably, while he was solving an entirely different problem. Shy and insecure about his middle-class origins, considered eccentric by those who did not know him well, Turing could show those close to him sly humor and bracing candor - even about his homosexuality. He also had one of the keenest minds of the twentieth century." "Turing's famous 1936 doctoral dissertation tackled one of the great mathematical challenges of the time, the "decidability problem," by proposing and imaginary programmable calculating machine. The idea of actually producing such a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until Turing and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory in World War II. Along the way, Turing crossed paths with some of the greatest minds of his time, including John von Neumann and Ludwig Wittgenstein." "After the war, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous Turing Test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing's postwar computer-building was cut short when he was arrested for violating antihomosexuality laws and sentenced to a "treatment" that amounted to chemical castration." "As he explains Turing's work and its implications, David Leavitt never loses sight of Turing's humanity, using a novelist's sensitivity to enter Turing's world and tell his extraordinary story."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aTuring, Alan,$d1912-1954.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83171546
650 0 $aMathematicians$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107474
650 0 $aGay men$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence$xHistory.
830 0 $aGreat discoveries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003005418
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005018034.html
852 00 $bmat$hQA29.T8$iL43 2006