AltBey: The Enigma That's Capturing The World

Capturing both the inner and outer drama of turings life, andrew hodges tells how turings revolutionary idea of 1936the concept of a universal machinelaid the foundation. The first world war broke out in august 1914, but by november, the allies had captured three german codebooks and worked out how to decipher german naval messages. Alan turing helped create the bombe computer that cracked the german enigma code and helped win the war against hitler. Alan turing's skills in mathematics and computer. 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.