Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science) : The Making of the Modern Computer
by
Jon Agar
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Icon Science
ISBN-10
178578238X
ISBN-13
9781785782381
Publisher
Icon Books
Imprint
Icon Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 7th, 2017
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
142 grams
Dimensions
13.10 x 19.70 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Popular scienceComputer science
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The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.
The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing.How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar''s enlightening story of the''universal machine'', we discover how Turing''s groundbreaking work not onlyhelped break German codes during the Second World War but also founded the beginningsof the modern computer.Persecuted by the authorities for hishomosexuality, and ultimately hounded to suicide, Turing''s personaltribulations are as relevant to the modern world as his work on computing, asindicated by his posthumous royal pardon of 2013 and the recent film The Imitation Game, which focuses onTuring''s turbulent life.
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