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Enigma cipher system Drama Gay men Great Britain Drama Mathematicians Mathematicians England Fiction Mathematicians Great Britain Biography Mathematicians Great Britain Drama Turing, Alan Mathison 1912-1954 Turing, Alan Mathison 1912-1954 Drama World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography Drama World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain DramaLagercrantz, David
Summary: Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Imitation 2015Hodges, Andrew.
Summary: A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014