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The man who knew too much
Alan Turing and the invention of the computer
By Leavitt, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-39305-236-7
- Publisher
- New York : W. W. Norton, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 2005
Sparks are bound to fly when the life of one of the 20th century's greatest scientists and thinkers is displayed through a gay lens. Novelist Leavitt (The Lost Language of Cranes) picks over old bones in the closet of acclaimed mathematician, cryptographer, computer theorist, and philosopher Alan Turing (1912-54), looking for insight into the influence that his homosexual orientation mig...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
