Turing And The Computer

The computer has revolutionized the modern age of communication and has touchedevery part of modern life. Without a doubt the development of the computer wasa m... » 

The computer has revolutionized the modern age of communication and has touchedevery part of modern life. Without a doubt the development of the computer wasa massive leap forward in humankinds progress and will stand as one of thetwentieth centurys greatest achievements. But how many of us know how itreally works? Turing And The Computer offers a brilliant encapsulation of thegroundwork that led to the invention of the computer as we know it and anabsorbing account of the man who helped develop it only to be largelyforgotten after his death. Eccentric and principled Turing would lay aside abrilliant career in mathematics to serve his country by breaking German codesduring the Second World War. Openly homosexual he would later be put on trialon indecency charges and forced to undergo hormone treatments that wrecked hisbody and his spirit. But the modern machine he helped create lives on.Concise and thoroughly compelling Turing And The Computer is for all thosecurious about the philosophy and mechanics behind the now indispensablecomputer and for anyone awed by the spark of invention that inspires itsbirth. «