Alan M. Turing

by Turing, Sara; Davis, Martin; Turing, John (AFT)

• ISBN13: 9781107020580
• ISBN10: 1107020581
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-23
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence and computational biology have become better appreciated. To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography is enriched by a new foreword by Martin Davis and a never-before-published memoir by Alan's older brother. The contrast between this memoir and the original biography reveals tensions and sheds new light on Turing's relationship with his family, and on the man himself.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Centenary Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Foreword to the First Edition

Preface

Mainly Biographical

Family background

Childhood and early boyhood

At Sherborne school

At Cambridge

At the Graduate College, Princeton

Some characteristics

War work in the Foreign Office

At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington

Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine

Broadcasts and intelligent machinery

Morphogenesis

Relaxation

Last days and some tributes

Containing Computing Machinery and Morphogenesis

Computing machinery

Chemical theory of morphogenesis considered

My brother

Bibliography

Index

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