Purvis’s sometimes-clunky art suggests a more juvenile volume than is actually delivered in this fully three-dimensional portrait of a man whose contributions-to the modern world as well as the war-was only recognized long after his tragic disgrace. But the book’s thought-provoking core is Turing’s pursuit of his groundbreaking idea of the universal computer and using his imitation game (a method of telling artificial intelligence from the real thing) to plumb the corners of his own personality. Writer Ottaviani (Feynman) threads the particulars of Turing’s life, from school to top-secret wartime cryptography to postwar scandal. : The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded: 9781419718939: Ottaviani, Jim, Purvis, Leland: Libros : The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded: 9781419718939: Ottaviani, Jim, Purvis, Leland: Libros Omitir e ir al contenido principal. Here, the great brain of Bletchley Park was just one of many odd geniuses (albeit possibly the most innovative) who helped crack the Nazis’ seemingly unbreakable Enigma code machine. Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the mathematician credited with. A powerful, sympathetic portrait of one of the 20th century’s great minds, this graphic biography of Alan Turing doesn’t play the usual game of establishing its hero as the only smart person in the room. Editions for The Imitation Game: (ebook published in 2014), 1419718932 (Hardcover published in 2016), (Kindle Edition published in 2016), 1419736450 (Pap. Buy The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani for 33.00 at Mighty Ape NZ.
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