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Alan Turing: The Enigma - The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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Alan Turing: The Enigma - The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The
Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
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 breaking the
Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then
headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he
had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he
turned this into the first design for a digital computer. Turing's
far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision
for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality
rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating
treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.
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