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Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famed mathematician and codebreaker, offers the earliest modern family portrait of Alan Turing. Drawing on recently released National Archives records, unpublished photographs from the Turing family album, and sources previously ignored by other biographers, the book traces Turing’s extraordinary 42‑year career as a mathematician, codebreaker at Bletchley Park, computer scientist, and biologist. It examines his wartime contributions, his persecution for gross indecency, and the myth that has grown around him, providing a balanced account that separates fact from legend.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Dermot Turing
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