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• jgrahamc · Apr 14, 2015 · Recommends

  My recommendation when anyone asks this. 1. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/... Definitive and detailed biography. 2. Alan M. Turing by Sara Turing http://www.amazon.com/Alan-M-Turing-Centenary-Edition/dp/110...…

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• rg111 · Feb 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …book. Background in Physics will be very helpful if you want to read this one. - The Mathematical Experience David, Hersh is a very succinct and pleasant book on the history of Maths. Will recommend. - Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a good mathematician's biography. I have not finished it, but fully intend to. - I have just read some of The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattyacharya is a biography…

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• paul_reiners · Feb 23, 2008 · Recommends

  I haven't read Leavitt’s book on Turing, so I can't comment on it. I have read "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges, which was excellent, both in the biographical details and the mathematical details.

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• fduran · Mar 26, 2012 · Recommends

  …Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" http://www.amazon.com/The-Code-Book-Science-Cryptography/dp/... has a chapter about the Enigma. This book is easy to read as a nice intro to many crypto topics. "Alan Turing: The Enigma" http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Andrew-Hodges/dp/08... , supposedly the best biography of Turing, I enjoyed it. There's quite a bit on his work on the Enigma but not technical.

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• greenyoda · May 30, 2016 · Recommends

  …format (and are thus easier to decrypt), this error allowed the Bletchley Park people to crack the operations key much more quickly than they otherwise could have. This episode is described in the book Alan Turing: The Enigma[1], which was the basis for "The Imitation Game" film. I highly recommend this book if you're interested in Turing, cryptography, or the early days of computing. While Turing is best known…

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• dill_day · Jul 12, 2009 · Recommends

  I really recommend Alan Turing: the Enigma by Andrew Hodges... this was a great read

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• michael_dorfman · Jan 19, 2010 · Recommends

  I was going to recommend the Hodges biography of Alan Turing, but it appears to be (sadly) out of print. http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Andrew-Hodges/dp/08... [edit: In the US. Someone else posted the link to the UK edition, thanks!]

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• scorpioxy · Mar 29, 2010 · Recommends

  …some categories you're interested in. A few example i enjoyed: The State of Africa, Martin Meredith The Code Book, Simon Singh Pity the Nation, Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Fermat's Engima, Simon Singh Lots more....

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• arethuza · Nov 22, 2011 · Recommends

  Can I recommend "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges - it really is a splendid book and covers all of Turing's work: http://www.turing.org.uk/book/

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• arethuza · Sep 10, 2013 · Recommends

  This might not be what you are looking for, but it is a fantastic book: "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges I really enjoyed listening to it while cycling - even though I had read the book a couple of times before! It is available from Audible in the UK - don't know about elsewhere.

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• thisrod · Oct 31, 2014 · Recommends

  It's an interesting coincidence for Mr Cook to come out alongside the movie adaptation of Alan Turing: The Enigma. When I was an undergrad in the 90s, that book was the only obvious story about an out geek, and it was far more cathartic than comforting. After that, some happier stories started to appear.…

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• swordswinger12 · Dec 1, 2014 · Recommends

  I don't care that I'm beating a dead horse here - if you haven't read Andrew Hodges' excellent biography of Alan Turing, you should put it on your holiday reading list. Link: http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/...

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• greenyoda · Jun 5, 2018 · Recommends

  That's a wonderful story! The biography Alan Turing: The Enigma (which I highly recommend) also goes into a lot of detail about the early computers that Turing worked on: https://www.amazon.com/dp/069116472X I learned about Turing Machines as a CS student…

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• PaulAJ · Mar 28, 2020 · Recommends

  * Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges. The definitive biography, with lots of detailed explanations of his work. * Making Software, edited by Oram & Wilson. A bunch of papers about evidence-based…

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• ruggeri · Dec 4, 2022 · Recommends

  I second this! In a similar, but different, vein, I also recommend Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges. Do not be turned off by the useless film adaptation. The book is intelligent and fascinating, and more aimed at someone with an undergraduate level understanding of math…

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