A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
18 September 2007
Pages
240
ISBN
9781400032402

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin

Kurt Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another-both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.

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