![]() There are neither chronological nor developmental lacunae in Hodges’s account, with the author skillfully explaining Turing’s intellectual and emotional maturation from birth to death. Significantly, Turing’s exculpation for a crimeless offense was set into motion through the utilization of a technology (the computer) that owes its existence, at least in part, to his towering intellect. That apology was precipitated by the enormous popularity of an online petition. He creates a narrative tapestry that illuminates the life of one of the most significant individual contributors to Allied victory in the Second World War. This reprint of the original 1983 publication contains a new preface by the author, noting Gordon Brown’s, the prime minister, 2009 statement of apology for Britain’s persecution of Alan Turing as a gay man. 768 pp.Īndrew Hodges’s Alan Turing: The Enigma weaves a colorful fabric of individual biography, twentieth- century British scientific inquiry, arithmetic, and social history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983 repr., 2014. ![]()
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