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Hodges, Andrew.
Alan Turing: The Enigma.
Publisher: Burnet Books Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1983
Stock Code: 11651
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [10], 587. With 4 double-sided photographic plates; scattered diagrams throughout. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine head is lightly bruised with associated light creasing to jacket; slight soiling to page block edges. Overall a tight, neat copy; a very good book in like jacket. Hodges authoritative biography of mathematician Alan Turing spans his childhood, time at Cambridge University and his famed work at Bletchley Park, up to his untimely death at 41 years old. Turing designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first stored-program computers and is considered the father of modern computer science. £50.00