A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Levin, Janna

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Author
Levin, Janna
Publish Date
20070918
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
239
Number of Pages
240
Edition
33149th
ISBN-10
1400032407
ISBN-13
9781400032402
citemno
162731
SKU
9781400032402

Description

Kurt Gödel’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.