It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This acclaimed biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program--all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime.
The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Release Time: 114 minutes
Cast:
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing
Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke
Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander
Rory Kinnear as Detective Nock
Allen Leech as John Cairncross
Matthew Beard as Peter Hilton
Charles Dance as Cdr. Alastair Denniston
Mark Strong as Maj. Gen. Stewart Menzies
James Northcote as Jack Good
Steven Waddington as Supt Smith
Tom Goodman-Hill as Sgt. Staehl
Alex Lawther as young Alan Turing
Jack Bannon as Christopher Morcom
Tuppence Middleton as Helen Stewart
David Charkham as William Kemp Lowther Clarke
Victoria Wicks as Dorothy Clarke
James G. Nunn as Sherborne Boy
Awards:
2015 Academy Awards
Best Picture - Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman - Nominated
Best Director - Morten Tyldum - Nominated
Best Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch - Nominated
Best Supporting Actress - Keira Knightley - Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay - Graham Moore - Won
Best Editing - William Goldenberg - Nominated
Best Original Score - Alexandre Desplat - Nominated
Best Production Design - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald - Nominated
2015 Golden Globes
Best Motion Picture – Drama - The Imitation Game - Nominated
Best Screenplay - Graham Moore - Nominated
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama - Benedict Cumberbatch - Nominated
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture - Keira Knightley - Nominated
Best Original Score - Alexandre Desplat - Nominated
2014 BAFTA Awards
Best Film - The Imitation Game - Nominated
Best British Film - The Imitation Game - Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay - Graham Moore - Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role - Benedict Cumberbatch - Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Keira Knightley - Nominated
Best Editing - William Goldenberg - Nominated
Best Production Design - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald - Nominated
Best Costume Design - Sammy Sheldon Differ - Nominated
Best Sound - John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen - Nominated
A mathematician, an author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.
He is a Tutorial Fellow in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. Having taught at Wadham since 1986, Hodges was elected a Fellow in 2007, and was appointed Dean from start of the 2011/2012 academic year.
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Love the book, got very angry at the film until I decided it was Turing fan fiction. (It really bears very little resemblance to the truth in places.) Did you know Turing started to right a romance story?
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