The book 'Enigma' focuses on the life of the mathematical genius, Alan Turing and the development of human technology that took place because of his significant contributions. The author also talks about his personal life, where he writes about his family, his early experiences at school, his sexuality and his unfortunate death. One of his many acheivements include breaking the German encrypting device, the enigma during World War II. This helped the Allies win the war and also shortened the ...

Alan Turing: The Enigma. The man himself is an Enigma. The book is a page-turner. Kept me rooted for days. I felt like reading it over and over again.

Good delivery by flipkart . This book has stupendous life story of Alan Turing . Andrew hodges gives a detail biography of Turing with original letters and other datas collected from Cambridge Univ.

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a biography that tells about the life and works of Alan Turing who was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician and cryptanalyst. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. This book is a must read for anyone with an interest in cryptography, computer science or the Second World War. It tells the story of his...

Its a huge book with detailed information about Alan and all his theories that seem to get over the top once in a while. It is written by a Mathematician about a Genius . So expect the theories to get extremely bewildering. It didnt interest me at all despite the fact that it was considered to be a great book as per good reads reviews.
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Well this book does a great job of honoring the genius and legacy of Alan Turing,the father of mordern computer.
The fact that the author of this book is a mathematician himself is positive sign for this book.
He has explored Alan's life,work and mathematics the best possible way.
The book is for those who love maths and want to know more of his life and his various advanced work on maths and code breaking.
The book is over 600 page long,it may not be an easy read for someone who has no math ...

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