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Quiet hero.(The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer)(Book review)
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, by David Leavitt (Norton, 288 pp., $22.95)
IF you have ever needed reminding of a nation's capacity for ingratitude, the story of Alan Turing ought to do the trick. And if you have never heard of Alan Turing, that only proves the point. Born in 1912 into the cheese-paring and snobbery of Britain's colonial administrative class, Turing emerged from a traditionalist family and an old-school education with a wild, unorthodox mind, and a record of achievement that establishes him as one of the most important mathematicians of the last century. In not much more than one astonishing decade, this extraordinary individual would not only play a critical part in paving the way for the development of the laptop on which I am now typing, but also, through his wartime code-breaking at Bletchley Park, help ensure that this article didn't have to be written in German. His tragedy, and ours, was that there was too little in the way of ...
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...but David Leavitt's biography of Alan Turing, which was published in America...chiefly as a gay martyr is a mistake.Turing's life added up to more than that. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer...
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...For Treatment Of Codebreaker, Alan Turing(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...After the unequivocal apology to Alan Turing by the government, Bletchley Park...the west. The contribution of Alan Turing himself cannot be exaggerated...
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IN 1936, MATHEMATICIAN ALAN TURING dreamed up the principle of the modern...more than ten years--during which Turing made a vital contribution to the Allied...World War. Before the start of war Turing turned to the problem of breaking Enigma...
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...legendary second World War codebreaker Alan Turing, as "very generous, untidy, rather...years later, on June 8th, 1954, Turing, was found dead in his home outside...the legal persecution that drove Turing to take his own life. Two years...
