The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
by David Leavitt
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Outlines the Bletchley Park mathematician's efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations, describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine, his contributions to cracking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II, and how the revelation of his homosexuality led to his tragic imprisonment and suicide. Reprint.