New editions of Alan Turing: The Enigma, both British and American, appeared in 2014.
The new British edition is from Vintage, Random House, London, and the new American edition is from Princeton University Press.
These new editions are virtually identical with a new 2014 Preface, and a Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter.The main text and notes are the same as in previous editions, but, mercifully, re-set in a larger typeface which makes it much easier to read than the earlier paperback editions. The cover picture relates to a (non-documentary) American-produced film which appeared in 2014.
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The complete book is on sale as a 30-hour audio from Audible.co.uk.
The Turing Centenary editions which appeared in 2012 are still available.Order from Amazon: UK edition | US edition.
2014 edition
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Biography by Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization.
Editions
The following editions of the book exist:[1]
Hardback
Paperback
New editions appeared in 2012, for the centenary of Turing's birth, and 2014, the year the film The Imitation Game was released.[2]
Audio
Reviews
The book has been widely reviewed by newspapers and magazines[1] including The Guardian, The Independent,[4]Los Angeles Times, Nature, New Statesman, New Yorker, The New York Times, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Physics Today,[5]Sunday Times, Time Out, Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal.[6]
Influence
The book inspired the 2014 film The Imitation Game, directed by
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Early Life
Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912, in Paddington, London, to upper-middle-class British parents, Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. An intelligent child, Turing spent much of his early life fostered in various English homes with his elder brother John—Julius and Ethel lived in India while Julius worked in the Indian Civil Service—and was often a lonely child. As biographer Andrew Hodges put it, Turing’s life was one of “an isolated and autonomous mind.”
Turing was fascinated with science, but he found little encouragement to pursue his interests from his foster homes or even his mother, who was fearful he would not be accepted into English public school. At 13 years old, however, he was accepted into a boarding school called Sherborne School, where he studied advanced scientific concepts like relativity on his own.
At Sherborne School, Turing formed a strong bond with fellow student Christopher Morcom, who inspired him to communicate more and focus on academic success. But Christopher died suddenly of tuberculosis in 1930, devastating Turing, who questioned w