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Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Category: Military
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 machin ...Show more
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Category: Biography
The official book behind the film, The Imitation Game, this is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of Alan Turing, one of Britain's most extraordinary unsung heroes, and one of the world's greatest innovators.This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nai ...Show more
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Audio CD, unabridged, 28 CDs) by Andrew Hodges
Category: Audio Books
The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he com ...Show more
Behind Nazi Lines: My Father's Heroic Quest to Save 149 World War II Pows by Andrew Gerow Hodges
Category: Military
Told by his own son, this is the riveting story of an Allied soldier who risked his life to save 149 prisoners-of-war. In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in the prisoner-of-war camps off the Atlantic coast of occupied France. Red Cross volunteer Andy Hodges was tapped for what sounded lik ...Show more
One to Nine : The Inner Life of Numbers by Andrew Hodges
Category: Science
Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, or even Seven wonders of the world? In One to Nine, Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life. Inspired by the popularity of Sudo ...Show more
One to Nine: The Meaning of Numbers by Andrew Hodges
Category: Science & Natural History
Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, indeed Seven wonders of the world? In "One to Nine", Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life. Inspired by millennia of human at ...Show more
Turing (The Great Philosophers) by Andrew Hodges
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the p ...Show more
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