Mathematician, Computer Programmer (23-Jun-1912 — 7-Jun-1954)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

B. Jack Copeland (editor). Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer. Oxford University Press. 2005. 460pp.

B. Jack Copeland (editor). The Essential Turing. Oxford University Press. 2004. 622pp.

Ted Gottfried. Alan Turing: The Architect of the Computer Age. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts. 1996.

Rolf Hochhuth. Alan Turing: Erzählung. Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt-Verlag. 1987. 189pp. Language: German.

Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing: The Enigma. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1983. 587pp.

David Leavitt. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. W. W. Norton. 2005. 288pp.

Clark Millican. Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing. Oxford University Press. 1997. 296pp.

Christof Teuscher (editor). Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. 2003. 570pp.

Andrew Wells. Rethinking Cognitive Computation: Turing and the Science of the Mind. Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. 256pp.

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6. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.771)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.712)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1480)

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