| A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Contributor(s): Levin, Janna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400032407 ISBN-13: 9781400032402 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Kurt Godel'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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |