Alan Turing: The Enigma

Author(s): Andrew Hodges

Gay Biography | Biography & Memoir

Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician who has been described as the father of the modern computer. He masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and was caught up in the secrecy and bureaucracy of World War II and afterwards - continually frustrated in his desire to build a machine which could think, as those with power over him feared both his homosexuality and indiscretion. This is an account of his life, which ended by his own hand.


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The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution.

Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.

General Fields

  • : 9780099116417
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage
  • : February 1992
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Andrew Hodges
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 624
  • : 1