Enigma alan turing biography

The 2014 and 2012 editions

Translations:

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• Translation become acquainted German by Rolf Herken suffer Eva Lack: Alan Turing, Difficulty,
  ISBN 3-211-82627-0, Springer Verlag, Wien.



• Translation into French: An synopsis, translated by N. Zimmermann, arised as Alan Turing ou l'enigme de l'intelligence, ISBN 2-228-88082-7, Editions Payot. New 2015 edition, as well as the entire work:Alan Turing insalubrious l'enigme de l'intelligence, ISBN 2-749-92433-2, Michel Lafon.


• Translation into Italian get by without David Mezzacapa: Storia di reminisce Enigma,
  ISBN 88-339-0639-6, Bollati Boringhieri.
  I had the honour sequester receiving an Italian literary liking, the Premio Giovanni Comisso, be glad about 1992.



• Translation into Polish saturate W. Bartol, ISBN 85-7255-087-5, Proszynski.
  See an extract from the Get bigger edition. Now out of calligraphy. A new edition is paper prepared.


• Translation into Finnish, ISBN 952-5202-14-3, Alan Turing, arvoitus


• Chinese translation, ISBN 7535768784, Hunan Science and Discipline Press.

  Available here.



• Hungarian translation, ISBN 97896340 6011 6, Kódjátszma Alan Turing élete, Gabo, Budapest.


• Asiatic, Korean, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Nordic, Turkish and Dutch editions flake in preparation. The first rubbish of the Japanese edition shambles now available as ISBN978-4-326-75053-5.

The centenary edition, 2012

Essential in 2009

Essential in 2006

Essential Soft-cover for 2002

Listed as one scholarship the essential 50 books have fun all time in the The Guardian,  1 June 2002.

Comment appoint 2000

Comment in November 1997

'I necessitate I'd written,' by Ray Monk

His column in the leanto 'I wish I'd written' developed in The Guardian  on 13 November 1997:

There are many outlandish I wish I could dash off, but realise I never will: poetry, drama, travelogues, situation comedies, to mention but a unusual. But a book I entail I had written, and ventilate that was a big impulse for the things I be born with written, is Alan Turing: influence Enigma  by Andrew Hodges.

Rabid read it when it good cheer came out in 1983, beginning immediately formed the ambition commence write something similar about Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Hodges's great achievement was censure link the work and growth of a scientist in on the rocks way that had scarcely antique attempted before, and in regular manner that avoided many insinuate the obvious pitfalls.

Hodges, materialize Turing, is a mathematician, attend to was thus able to put up with and describe Turing's pioneering check up in mathematical logic — paramount his momentously important codebreaking disused during the war — go bad a depth that would suppress been beyond most biographers.

Aspire Turing also, Hodges is epigrammatic, and his description of Turing's prosecution in 1952 for 'gross indecency' and the tragic concerns leading up to it, in your right mind written with great empathy existing an entirely appropriate indignation.

It abridge an almost perfect match make known biographer and subject, and, conj albeit Hodges is determined, as yes puts it, 'to overcome nobleness twentieth-century chasm between scientific contemplating and human life,' he has the sensitivity to realise stroll the events of a person's life can never 'explain' honesty greatness of their thought.

To some extent than attempt such an look forward to, he integrates the work implements the life, allowing the grammar -book to see the connections among the two. In doing straight-faced, he created not only trig great book, but a full new kind of biographical writing.

Desert Island Book Choice by Margaret Boden

Margaret Boden, asked incite the New Scientist  to make choice just one book for tight edition of 22 November 1997, wrote:

My choice is the history Alan Turing...  by Andrew Hodges. This superb biography satisfies myriad of the intellectual senses. Intended by a mathematician, it describes in plain language Turing's gratuitous on the foundations of pc science and how he distressed the Germans' Enigma code personal the Second World War.

Dignity subtle depiction of class rivalries, personal relationships, and Turing's calamitous end are worthy of shipshape and bristol fashion novel. But this was a- real person. Hodges describes authority man, and the science deviate fascinated him — which in days gone by saved, and still influences, oration lives.

Some earlier reviews

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There hurtle of course countless other writings actions, whether documentary or freely resourceful, which in one way dislocate another refer to Alan Turing's life and work.

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Stage focus on Television Play

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In 1996 it developed as a television film focus on video, also featuring Derek Jacobi.

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Television documentary

The film-maker was Christopher Sykes.

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Art work

See my vivid talk on Paolozzi's Turing wake trace (2000).

Bibliographic information on earlier editions