El hombre que sabía demasiado: Alan Turing y la invención de la Computadora (paperback)
by:
David Leavitt (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788495348302
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Antoni Bosch Editor
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This is a tough book for me to review, because at least 50% of it went in one ear and out the other. Don't get me wrong, it was interesting, it's just that I couldn't follow a lot of it.Part of the problem was the diagrams. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of them, especially in the first half of th...
Reviews are, of course, subjective. So, when I give it three stars, it is mostly because I don't feel I was the right audience for this book, and not because I think it was inherently bad. One who really has a fascination with mathematics and/or the development of computers would probably really e...
I found this a fascinating book, even though the mathematical concepts in the middle chapters were a bit of a hard slog. Still, even if I didn't fully follow the explanations, it was entirely helpful to get a sense of the territories in which Turing's mind was working. And the bit about the Enigma m...
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