All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists.
This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the brilliant mathematician's life. When his young friend died, Alan retreated to the world of numbers and codes, where he discovered how to crack the code of the Nazi Enigma machine.
In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.In this book from the critically acclaimed, multi million-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Alan Turing, the genius code cracker and father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.Īlan grew up in England, where his best friends were numbers and a little boy called Christopher. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.
But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Description for Alan Turing: Enigma Paperback.
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