Alan Turing: The Enigma

by Andrew Hodges

Unknown Binding

About the author

Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician, author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.
He is a Tutorial Fellow in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Reviews

[Arthur Ryman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a cradle-to-grave chronicaling of the life of Alan Turing, legitimately known as the Father of Artificial Intelligence and a founder of our modern concept of computing machine. Turing is most famous for defining what it means for a function to be computable via his use of an automata now known as a Turing Machine. Turing also played a vital role in World War II breaking the German naval cipher known as Enigma. Hodges did extensive biographical research for this book, pulling together vitually all available material about Turing. Hodges presents this material with great clarity and sensitivity by virtue of his shared background as a gay mathematician. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of mathematics, computing, or Artificial Intelligence.