书名：Alan Turing: The Enigma艾伦·图灵传如谜的解谜者
作者：Andrew Hodges
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2014
语种：英文
ISBN：9781784700089
商品尺寸：13.1 x 4.1 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：768
艾伦•图灵是现代人工智能的鼻祖，在24岁时奠定了计算机的理论基础。二战期间，他为盟军破译密码，为结束战争做出巨大贡献。战后，他开创性地提出人工智能的概念，并做了大量的前期工作。因同性恋问题事发，被迫注射激素，后来吃毒苹果而死。作者是一名数学家，也是一名同性恋者。他对图灵的生平有切身的体会，并实地走访调查图灵生前亲友，取得了大量的一手资料，写就此书。

根据本书改编的电影《模仿游戏》，由本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇、凯拉·奈特莉主演，荣获奥斯卡剧本改编奖。

★世界共认权威的图灵传记
★奥斯卡获奖电影《模仿游戏》原版传记
★ 英文原版，内容完整无删减

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.

But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.

Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.

Review
"One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told"(Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind)

"Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time" (Time Out)

"A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind"(New York Times Book Review)

"One of the finest scientific biographies ever written"(New Yorker)

"A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind…it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one"(Douglas Hofstadter New York Times Book Review)
安德鲁·霍奇斯，1949年出生于伦敦城郊，1972年开始研究扭量理论，这是数学家罗杰·彭罗斯开创的、解决物理学根本问题的新方法。霍奇斯对艾伦·图灵如谜的人生深感兴趣，这一半是因为他们都是数学家，另一半是因为他们都是同性恋。20世纪70年代，霍奇斯积极投身于同性恋解放运动。1977年，他决心著写一本详尽的图灵传记，他认为只有这样，才能公正地刻画这位天才的一生。经过多年调查与写作，本书初版于1983年问世。霍奇斯如今已重返本职，在牛津大学瓦德汉学院研究数学。
Andrew Hodges is Tutor in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose. See www.turing.org.uk for further material.