The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

David Leavitt

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Published
21 November 2006
Pages
336
ISBN
9780393329094

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

David Leavitt

To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment that may have led to his suicide.

With a novelist’s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications.

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