A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Author	: Janna Levin
File Size	: 50,9 Mb
Publisher	: Anchor
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 February 2009
ISBN	: 9780307538031
Pages	: 242 pages

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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin Book PDF Summary

Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.

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