
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
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Narrado por:
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Richard Powers
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David Leavitt
A '"skillful, 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.
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Professional programmer since 1999 and I had very high hopes for this book. Could not abide the long passages where the narrator was saying, "..zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.." to describe the mathematical logic.First Audible Book I Returned
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