A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Janna Levin$14.45
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Kurt G del'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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 09/18/2007
ISBN: 9781400032402
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 10/21/2007 pg. 20