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**A "skillful and literate" (__New York Times Book Review__) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.**To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War Ii, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity? his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor? and elegantly explains his work and its implications.

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Author

David Leavitt

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739471951

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.45 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14