971: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) Kindle Edition.by David Leavitt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1903. Princeton University http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) Kindle Edition.by David Leavitt (https://www.amazon.com/David-Leavitt/e/B000APAI84/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) (Author) Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Too-Much-ebook/dp/B00AJ3DWDU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1610259557&sr=1-1 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.