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(0)Andrew Hodges
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"A New York Times Bestseller 2014, 2015" "The Imitation Game, Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay" "Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford. Douglas Hofstadter is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds. An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in the...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
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