The Man Who Knew Too Much

Author: David Leavitt
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00AJ3DWDU

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. Download The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. o 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.



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