Alan Turing: The Enigma The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
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Biographical note
Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
Time Out
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind
New York Times Book Review
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
New Yorker
A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind…it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one
- Douglas Hofstadter, New York Times Book Review
One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
Andrew Hodge’s book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
Time Out
One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
New Yorker
Save your money for the forthcoming new edition of <i>Alan Turing: The Enigma </i>by Andrew Hodges, regarded by many as one of the greatest biographies of anyone, let along Turing
- Robert Matthews, BBC Focus Magazine
This book stands the test of time. It is a labour of love…compelling
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