The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing & the Invention Of The Computer, 1st Edit

Description: 2006 1st Edition319 pagesHardcover with dust jacket—very good condition—see condition notes and photos One of the most important openings in the path to the modern computer was made by the British mathematician Alan Turing—remarkably, while he was solving an entirely different problem. Shy and insecure about his middle-class origins, considered eccentric by those who did not know him well, Turing could show those close to him sly humor and bracing candor—even about his homosexuality. He also has one of the keenest minds of the twentieth century. Turing’s famous 1936 doctoral dissertation tackled one of the great mathematical challenges of the time, the “decidability problem,” by proposing an imaginary programmable calculating machine. The idea of actually producing such a “Turing Machine” did not crystallize until Turing and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis’ Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies’ victory in WWII. Along the way, Turing crossed paths with some of the greatest minds of his time, including John von Neumann and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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