作者: Andrew Hodges
出版社: Vintage
副標題: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
出版年: 2014-11-13
頁數: 768
定價: GBP 8.99
裝幀: Paperback
ISBN: 9781784700089
內容簡介
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.
Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.
艾倫.圖靈是現代計算機科學之父，在24歲時奠定了計算機的理論基礎。二戰期間，他為盟軍破譯密碼，為結束戰爭做出巨大貢獻。戰後，他開創性地提出人工智能的概念，並做了大量的前期工作。因同性戀問題事發，被迫注射激素，後來吃毒蘋果而死。他吃毒蘋果的原因 至今不明，一代科學大師，是自殺、他殺還是不小心，成為20世紀的謎。
安德魯·霍奇斯，1949年出生於倫敦城郊，1972年開始研究扭量理論，這是數學家羅傑·彭羅斯開創的、解決物理學根本問題的新方法。霍奇斯對艾倫·圖靈如謎的人生深感興趣，這一半是因為他們都是數學家，另一半是因為他們都是同性戀。70年代，霍奇斯積極投身於同性戀解放運動。1977年，他決心著寫一本最詳盡的圖靈傳記，他認為只有這樣，才能公正地刻畫這位天才的一生。經過多年調查與寫作，本書初版於1983年問世。霍奇斯如今已重返本職，在牛津大學瓦德漢學院研究數學。
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