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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film *The Imitation Game*.Alan Turing (1912–1954) was a British mathematician whose genius profoundly shaped the 20th century: he invented the computer and artificial intelligence, crucially broke German Enigma codes during WWII, and anticipated gay liberation decades before his tragic suicide at age forty-one. This definitive biography, *Alan Turing: The Enigma*, by Andrew Hodges, chronicles Turing's extraordinary mind and life. From his revolutionary "universal machine" concept that laid the groundwork for modern computing to his pivotal wartime cryptography work that helped secure Allied victory, Hodges expertly details Turing's monumental contributions. Yet, it also unflinchingly recounts his tragic persecution for homosexuality, leading to his arrest, loss of clearance, and forced treatment despite his wartime service. This edition includes a new preface addressing Turing's 2013 royal pardon.
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This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of World War II. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Espionage & Codebreaking, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.
