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A '"competent, literate'" (New York Times Reserve Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the present day computer. To solve one of the great numerical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, wanting to break a Nazi code during World Warfare II, he effectively designed and built one, thus guaranteeing the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was lower short. As an openly gay man at the same time when homosexuality was unlawful in England, he was convicted and compelled to undergo a humiliating "treatment" which may have resulted in his suicide. Having a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in every his mankind - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor - and elegantly clarifies his work and its own implications.
