A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one...
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Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400032402 (1400032407)
ASIN: 1400032407
Publish date: September 18th 2007
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Book Club,
Computer Science,
Science,
Physics,
Historical Fiction,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Mathematics
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