But there is also an acute sense of the surrounding, changing world-and, cumulatively, some striking formulations. The pages are populated, not just for color, with the likes of von Neumann, Wittgenstein, and Michael Polanyi. This is not a book for the casual or lay reader, however: in describing Turing's mathematical coups at Cambridge in the 1930s, and his work on the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park, Hedges deals matter-of-factly with abstract concepts and technical detail. From his own mathematics and gay-rights background, Hedges reconstructs Turing's discoveries and his dilemma in a kind of dynamic tension-seeing Turing, with considerable subtlety, as an intellectual and sexual individualist. This book was the primary source material for the film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch.The conflicted life of ""an ordinary English homosexual atheist mathematician"": Alan Turing (1912-1954), of cryptanalysis and computer fame. This book, his biography, reveals the story of a man who started the Computer Revolution, a man ahead of his time, who was forced to bear the brunt of a close-minded society.Īndrew Hodges is a British writer and mathematician known for his books on popular science and mathematics. Instead, Turing was persecuted for his homosexual alliances, arrested, stripped of his security clearance and forced into a shameful treatment program. One would think that after the war, Turing would be felicitated. This laid bare all the secret messages of the Nazis and allowed the Allies the chance they needed to improve their own cryptography systems. Turing’s work with the concept, delivering an electronic design in 1945, allowed the Allied Forces to crack the Enigma Code. Little did he know that nearly half a decade later, his dream would snowball into the modern personal computer. Alan Turing had been working on a concept, a dream he called the “universal machine”. It was then that the work of a scientist bore fruit. All seemed to be lost, there could be no victory without knowledge of what the enemy knew. Despite the efforts of Churchill’s forces, not even the best of the British Intelligence’s cryptologists could crack the so-called “Enigma Code”. Alan Turing: The Enigma tells the story of the man who began the Computer Revolution, and who was persecuted for his homosexuality despite his achievements.ĭuring the Second World War, the Germans were successfully passing cryptic messages past the borders, leaking important information to their home base.
In the wake of the Nazi-wrought chaos, one man began to decipher their cryptic code and offer humanity one last chance against the forces of Hitler.
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