Turing, Dermot – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:32:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Turing, Dermot – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Reflections of Alan Turing https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/reflections-of-alan-turing/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/reflections-of-alan-turing/ Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.

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When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing’s trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon, the £50 note and the film The Imitation Game?

In Reflections of Alan Turing, Dermot strips off the layers to uncover the real story. It’s time to discover a fresh legacy of Alan Turing for the twenty-first century.

]]> Alan Turing https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/alan-turing/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/alan-turing/ Alan Turing - a mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World War. This book, with recent research by his nephew, Dermot Turing, has unearthed a fresh perspective, and here his story is condensed into a short, accessible Pitkin guide.

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All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park during the Second World War to emerge.We learnt that Alan Turing had had a pivotal role in breaking the Enigma cipher, used by German forces.This was so significant that it helped to shorten the length of the war.

Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years other careers besides secret codebreaker: he was also a mathematician, computer scientist and biologist. For example, with Tommy Flowers he built the first computer. A man ahead of his time, many of his theories and calculations are still relevant today.

In this guide to a truly remarkable life, recent research by Alan Turing’s nephew, Dermot, has unearthed a fresh perspective and made entirely accessible this story to the modern reader.

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