Alan Turing Decoded Turing Dermot
The return of the high successful biography of a modern legend by Alan Turing's nephew 'A cracking read. ' --Nick Smith, Engineering and TechnologyAlan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into…
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The return of the high successful biography of a modern legend by Alan Turing's nephew 'A cracking read. ' --Nick Smith, Engineering and TechnologyAlan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into his 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname 'Prof' was given by his codebreaking friends at Bletchley Park.Now Dermot Turing has taken a fresh look at the influences on his uncle's life and creativity, and the creation of a legend. He discloses the real character behind the cipher-text, answering questions that help the man