Paul Hoffman, author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.Ĭomment in November 1997 'I wish I'd written,' by Ray Monk Ray Monk is biographer of Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert Oppenheimer. Perceptive andabsorbing, Andrew Hodges's book is scientific biography at its best. A captivating, compassionate portrait of a first-rate scientist who gaveso much to a world that in the end cruelly rejected him. Martin Davis, in The Universal Computer One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative,superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told.
Comment in 2000 I was fortunate to have available Andrew Hodges's poignant, beautifully written biography of Turing. Jim Holt, in the New Yorker, March 2006 Essential Book for 2002 Listed as one of the essential 50 books of all time in the The Guardian, 1 June 2002. Essential in 2006 Two decades ago, a mathematician named Andrew Hodges published 'Alan Turing: The Enigma', which is one of the finest scientific biographies ever written, and has remained an essential resource for all subsequent accounts of Turing's life. Essential in 2009One of 'Ten essential books on technology', chosen by John Ridpath in the New Statesman. Alvay Ray Smith, Notices of the American Mathematical Society. It's still the Bible of Turing biography. And he brings it up-to-date in the Centenary Edition.
ALAN TURING ENIGMA FULL
He got the full story and told it carefully, intimately, and well. It finally brought Turing the man into sharp focus. Then suddenly, in 1983, Andrew Hodges published his biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma, which told it all.
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But fellow mathematician and author Hodges has acutely clear and often extremely moving insight into the humanity behind the leaping genius that helped to crack the Germans' Enigma codes during World War II and bring about the dawn of the computer age.
On the face of it, a richly detailed 500-page biography of a mathematical genius and analysis of his ideas, might seem a daunting proposition. Andrew Hodges' 1983 book "Alan Turing: The Enigma," is the indispensable guide to Turing's life and work and one of the finest biographies of a scientific genius ever written. Michael Saler, in The Times Literary Supplement. He also empathetically explored the centrality of Turing's sexual identity to his thought and life in a persuasive rather than reductive way. A mathematician, Hodges ably explained Turing's intellectual accomplishments with insight, and situated them within their wider historical contexts. Hodges examined available primary sources and interviewed surviving witnesses to elucidate Turing's multiple dimensions. R E V I E W S The centenary edition, 2012 Turing's rehabilitation from over a quarter-century's embarrassed silence was largely the result of Andrew Hodges's superb biography, Alan Turing: The enigma (1983 reissued with a new introduction in 2012).
ALAN TURING ENIGMA UPDATE
Update Continue to the on-line Book Update. The first part of the Japanese edition is now available as ISBN978-3-5.
Translation into French: An abridgement, translated by N.Translation into German by Rolf Herken and Eva Lack: Alan Turing, Enigma,.I am represented by Zeno Agency for questions concerning translation rights. The complete book is on sale as a 30-hour audio from .uk.The Turing Centenary editions which appeared in 2012 are still available.Order from Amazon: UK edition | US edition. Order from Amazon: the UK paperback edition | UK Kindle edition | US paperback edition | US Kindle edition.
The cover picture relates to a (non-documentary) American-produced film which appeared in 2014. The new British edition is from Vintage, Random House, London, and the new American edition is from Princeton University Press.These new editions are virtually identical with a new 2014 Preface, and a Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter.The main text and notes are the same as in previous editions, but, mercifully, re-set in a larger typeface which makes it much easier to read than the earlier paperback editions. The 20 editions New editions of Alan Turing: The Enigma, both British and American, appeared in 2014. Alan Turing: The Enigma Notes by the author, Andrew Hodges Home Page | Site Map | Contact and FAQ
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