Books like Alan Turing by Jim Corrigan

Charles Petzold dissects Alan Turing’s 1936 paper that introduced the Turing machine, revealing the birth of computability theory and its lasting influence on modern computer science.

A biography of Evariste Galois, a mathematician whose work led to the solution of quintic equations, focusing on his life and contributions to the field of group theory and symmetry.

Alan Turing, cryptographer at Bletchley Park and pioneer of modern computing, dreamed of a machine that could think, shaping the world of computer science and exploring the boundaries between human and technology.

A first‑hand biography of Alan Turing written by his nephew, Dermot Turing, drawing on newly released National Archives documents, unpublished photographs, and fresh insights into Turing’s life as mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer.

Alan M. Turing, a towering figure in 20th‑century mathematics and computing, whose pioneering work on Enigma and contributions to logic, artificial intelligence and computational biology reshaped modern science.

"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and work on artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary that he can claim to be the founding father of these disciplines. In this book, Turing's key writings in all these subjects are made easily accessible for the first time. Lectures, scientific papers, top secret wartime material, correspondence, and broadcasts are introduced and set in context by Jack Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing."--Jacket.

Brilliant mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing’s life and ideas—from breaking Germany’s Enigma codes to founding theoretical computer science—are explored in this concise biography.