Author: David LeavittPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393329097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
Author: David LeavittPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393329097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
Author: David LeavittPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346579
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. 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.
Scientific American
Author: Alan Turing
Author: S. Barry CooperPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0123870127
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 937
Book Description
In this 2013 winner of the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2013 PROSE Awards for Mathematics and Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics, also from the AAP, readers will find many of the most significant contributions from the four-volume set of the Collected Works of A. M. Turing. These contributions, together with commentaries from current experts in a wide spectrum of fields and backgrounds, provide insight on the significance and contemporary impact of Alan Turing's work. Offering a more modern perspective than anything currently available, Alan Turing: His Work and Impact gives wide coverage of the many ways in which Turing's scientific endeavors have impacted current research and understanding of the world. His pivotal writings on subjects including computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, morphogenesis, and more display continued relevance and insight into today's scientific and technological landscape. This collection provides a great service to researchers, but is also an approachable entry point for readers with limited training in the science, but an urge to learn more about the details of Turing's work. - 2013 winner of the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the 2013 PROSE Awards for Mathematics and Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics, also from the AAP - Named a 2013 Notable Computer Book in Computing Milieux by Computing Reviews - Affordable, key collection of the most significant papers by A.M. Turing - Commentary explaining the significance of each seminal paper by preeminent leaders in the field - Additional resources available online
The Man Who Knew Too Much Illustrated
Author: G K ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.[1][2][3][4] The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. The United States edition contained one of these additional stories: "The Trees of Pride", while the United Kingdom edition contained "Trees of Pride" and three more, shorter stories: "The Garden of Smoke", "The Five of Swords" and "The Tower of Treason".
Public Library Catalog
Author: The Man who Knew Too Much
Author: David LeavittPublisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780753822005
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candour - while explaining his work and its implications.
Joyce in the Belly of the Big Truck; Workbook
Author: Joyce A. CascioPublisher:
ISBN: 9780976237310
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
Author: Lawrence M. KraussPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393080544
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits. From the death of Feynman’s childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon, we see Feynman’s life through his science, providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions.
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