Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

768 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction biography computer science lgbtqia+ mathematics informative medium-paced
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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were b...

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