Alan Turing: The Enigma

Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.

Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War.

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The extraordinary mathematician Alan Turing masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. In 1945, he completed the first design for the computer and his vision for the digital era foresaw artificial intelligence.

However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific thinkers was lost.

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