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艾倫.圖靈傳(上):破解密碼的戰爭英雄

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艾倫.圖靈 (Alan Turing,1912-1954)被譽為電腦科學之父,他是位數學家、無神論者;他性情古怪,熱愛跑馬拉松,他不只提出電腦的概念、奠定電腦運作的原理,同時他在第二次世界大戰期間破解了納粹德國的恩尼格瑪機密碼,幫助提早結束戰爭,拯救了無數生命。

圖靈也是人工智能的鼻祖,二次世界大戰後,他開創性地提出人工智能的概念,並做了大量的前期工作。後來卻因同性戀問題,在當時英國法令規定下,被迫選擇化學閹割替代入獄,不久自殺身亡,死時在其身旁留下一顆毒蘋果。

由同是數學家的安德魯.霍奇斯窮盡心力所撰寫的本書是世界公認最權威的圖靈傳記,也是電影《模仿遊戲》的改編依據。在《艾倫.圖靈傳(上)破解密碼的戰爭英雄》中,作者詳細記錄圖靈的早期成長和研究發展,從家庭背景、求學歷程、同性愛戀、心智蛻變、自動機器/圖靈機概念的萌發,到二戰爆發,加入布萊切利莊園,投入破解納粹德國恩尼格瑪機的工作,讓讀者看到一個獨特心靈的轉變與出格,也讓讀者進一步瞭解這位既偉大又隱晦的歷史人物。

485 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2017

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Andrew Hodges

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Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician, author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.
He is a Tutorial Fellow in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

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