num_pages: 230
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.
language: English
title: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
titlecomplete: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
genres: Historical, Literature, Science Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1684
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
category: Outstanding Fictional Work, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Anchor