Prof : Alan Turing decoded / a biography by Dermot Turing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2016.Description: 284 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1841656607
  • 9781841656601
Other title:
  • Professor Alan Turing decoded
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QA29.T8 T78 2016
Contents:
Unreliable Ancestors -- Dismal Childhoods -- Direction of Travel -- Kingsman -- Machinery of Logic -- Prof -- Looking Glass War -- Lousy Computer -- Taking Shape -- Machinery of Justice -- Unseen Worlds -- Epilogue : Alan Turning Decoded.
Summary: "Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname 'Prof' was given by his code breaking friends at Bletchley Park. Now, Alan Turing's nephew, Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing's life and creativity, and the later creation of a legend. Dermot's vibrant and entertaining approach to the life and work of a true genius makes this a fascinating and authoritative read."--Page [4] of cover.
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Unreliable Ancestors -- Dismal Childhoods -- Direction of Travel -- Kingsman -- Machinery of Logic -- Prof -- Looking Glass War -- Lousy Computer -- Taking Shape -- Machinery of Justice -- Unseen Worlds -- Epilogue : Alan Turning Decoded.

"Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname 'Prof' was given by his code breaking friends at Bletchley Park. Now, Alan Turing's nephew, Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing's life and creativity, and the later creation of a legend. Dermot's vibrant and entertaining approach to the life and work of a true genius makes this a fascinating and authoritative read."--Page [4] of cover.

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