Full name: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

Author: David Leavitt Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393329094 0393329097

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 Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications. This book is part of the "Great Discoveries" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Quantum Man" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Miss Leavitt's Stars" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Incompleteness" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Obsessive Genius" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Einstein's Cosmos" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Everything and More" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley Five Sisters by James Fox The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami Newton by Peter Ackroyd Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni Who Was Albert Einstein? by Jess Brallier The Rockefellers by Peter Collier The Man Who Knew Too Much by Stephen Inwood Wizard by Marc J. Seifer Nightingales by Gillian Gill Morgan by Jean Strouse The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk Tesla by W. Bernard Carlson Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky