The Man Who Knew Too Much - (Great Discoveries) by David Leavitt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Alan Turing helped break the Nazis' Enigma code and became a champion of artificial intelligence. An openly gay man, he was sentenced to chemical castration and committed suicide. Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment that may have led to his suicide.<br /><br /> With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--and elegantly explains his work and its implications.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Leavitt] conveys abstruse information in elegant narrative prose.-- "Miami Herald"<br><br>Stimulating . . . ambitious.-- "Seattle Times"<br><br>With lyrical prose and great compassion, Leavitt has produced a simple book about a complex man involved in an almost unfathomable task that is accessible to any reader.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br>
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