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Revolutions in Science
Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
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The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.
153 pages, Paperback
First published April 23,1997
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153 pages, Paperback
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April 24, 2001 by Icon,Totem Books
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9781840462500
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1840462507
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English
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Alan Turing
A British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the...
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