David Leavitt - The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer Audiobook
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A ‘”skillful, literate’” (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating “treatment” that may have led to his suicide.
With a novelist’s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor - and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
©2012 David Leavitt; (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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This post has 3 comments
June 21st, 2015
The ’suicide’ is part of the ‘aura of persecution’ and the embracing of so-called victimization of homosexuals. Some people love to be part of the victimhood. It strokes their egos.
The theory here is that with his penchant for sciences was his experimenting with chemistry; as was his interest in cyanide. He experimented with cyanide long before his so-called suicide because he was supposedly unhappy with the penalty phase of his illegal activites. In fact if you are really curious, go back to your local library and read books about him that were written in the 50’s and 60s for verification.
I wish people didn’t change history to suit the ‘oh poor me’ victimhood narrative nowadays.
He was a talented mathematician who used his talents in cryptography but he was neither a maryr or saint to be worshipped because of his homosexuality.
June 22nd, 2015
As always Pats, well said. The ‘aura of persecution’ and ethos of ‘victimhood’ have been creeping up for a while now, almost in every subject. A sign of the times!
June 29th, 2015
Pats, you are wearing out your welcome here.
Refrain from pushing your political and religious agenda or you will be banned.
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