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Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges,

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Start date: November 1, 2022

Finish date: November 30, 2022

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May 19, 2018 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: british-literature, espionage, film-only, memoir-biography, read-2018, hf-world-war-ii, science, non-fiction

A movie was made based on this book - The Imitation Game (2014) with Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode.

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Oct 16, 2018 Richard Zhu rated it liked it

This book is really long and full of relevant & irrelevant details.

Worth a read purely for the details of how Turing grew up and got educated, as well as how the British fought the Enigma. Sadly missing many interesting details about the mathematical problems that Turing faced, e.g. I still don't know what the curvature of the poster glass that leads to uniform lighting of a poster is.

I probably wouldn't read it again. ...more

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