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    Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science)

    The Making of the Modern Computer

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    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 grou...
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    • Book binding : Paperback
    • Preservation state : 1. As New
    • Publication Date : 13/11/2024
    • Year of edition : 0
    • Authors : Jon Agar
    • Number of pages : 160

    The history of the computer is entwined
    with that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant but
    troubled Alan Turing.

    How did the computer come to structure
    and dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar's enlightening story of the
    'universal machine', we discover how Turing's groundbreaking work not only
    helped break German codes during the Second World War but also founded the beginnings
    of the modern computer.

    Persecuted by the authorities for his
    homosexuality, and ultimately hounded to suicide, Turing's personal
    tribulations are as relevant to the modern world as his work on computing, as
    indicated by his posthumous royal pardon of 2013 and the recent film The Imitation Game, which focuses on
    Turing's turbulent life.

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