Alan Turing : the Enigma

The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition

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Douglas R. Hofstadter, Douglas Hofstadter, Andrew Hodges: Alan Turing : the Enigma (2014, Princeton University Press)

768 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2014 by Princeton University Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4008-6512-3
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Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The American 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization.

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• Overall the book served its purpose, at least for me: I learned a lot about Alan Turing and definitely gained new perspective on him as a person
• I am a computer science major and I had a great interest in the nitty-gritty technological aspect of this book, but even for me it was too much at times. Lengthy, detail-heavy descriptions get boring
• Given the length of this book I expected to get a detailed understanding of Turing's life and work, this book only kind of delivered that. There were moments when it was truly fascinating but then it was right back to the boring technological descriptions.

Subjects

  • Turing, alan mathison, 1912-1954
  • Mathematicians, biography