Alan turing biography book pdf
His classic text of , since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, com- puting, war history..
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma Andrew HodgesDavid Sayre, Citation: Physics Today 37, 11, 107 (1984); doi: 10.1063/1.2915935 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2915935 View Table of Contents: http://physicstoday.scitation.org/toc/pto/37/11 Published by the American Institute of Physics alone in claiming that this policy contributed mightily to the disaster that ensued.
Kaplan shows that, in spite of the Vietnam failure, this same policy has moved back to center stage as "proved" military doctrine; current nuclear strategy now takes this doctrine as gospel. Forward deployment of tactical nuclear weapons makes sense, at best, in terms of a "finely tuned" games strategy that has never worked.
In this paper, a biographical overview of Alan Turing, the 20th century mathematician, philosopher and early computer scientist, is presented.
Such weapons are de facto under local command, which makes nonsense of the connection between theory and practice. Operational analysis was tested in combat in World War II, and real deaths were then a real concern of those shaping policy.
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