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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

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 Allie More »

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The Average Review score is 3.4 on a scale of 5.0. Total 28 reviewers are considered to generate the average review. Some of the new or latest reviews in ( T ) might be helpful and interesting to you. This average review is fetched by Kirsten Tranter and posted on 17 July

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[ 4.0 stars ] "I knew someone who worked in Bletchley Park during World War II, though he steadfastly refused to talk about it. He got a first class degree in mathematics in Cambridge and there was no way that they were going to waste his brain in the forces.There are other accounts of Turing's life, for example the 1983 biography after secret documents were released did they not give him his due. They ignor ..." Courtesy by Amazon
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[ 3.0 stars ] "Important gears in the machine of the history of computing are sometimes connected, sometimes disconnected. The British Government created one of the biggest disconnects by burying its own pioneering World War II work behind curtains of information classification.The Government shielded details of their war time work on the electromechanical Bombe computer and the Bombe-related programmable electr ..." Courtesy by Amazon
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[ 3.0 stars ] "I have read here that "it's only great when it's over". It is the way I am feeling about this book.I struggled all the way through the book to understand the way D. Leavitt explains Turing's work. If you read this book, do expect tens and tens of pages about all the proofs attempted to proof whether or not all mathematical theorems of provable, or expect to have a precise description a ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The ( T ) review is genenrated by Jeremie which was written on July 13, 2013 Review fetched on August 27, 2013 by Books Central.

[ 2.0 stars ] "Since Leavitt is an accomplished novelist, I expected a penetrating story of Alan Turing's life, and especially about his being gay. Not! This is a layman's account, in excruciating detail, of Turing's work. I covered a good deal of that ground in graduate school, and it can be explained much more concisely.When Turing moved at one point to Hanslope, in England, to continue his work ..." Courtesy by Amazon
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[ 4.0 stars ] "This is a fantastic book about one of the most under-rated geniuses that worked in the field of mathematics, he basically invented the algorithm for computer science. Plus he helped win the war for the Allies. ..." Courtesy by Amazon
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Available	Yes
Author	David Leavitt
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780739471951
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0739471953
Label	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PackageQuantity	1
ProductGroup	Book
ProductTypeName	ABIS_BOOK
PublicationDate	2006-11-17
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate	2006-11-17
Studio	W. W. Norton & Company
Title	The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

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