Sara Turing, John F. Turing, Lyn Irvine and Martin Davis
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'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence and computational biology have become better appreciated. To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography is enriched by a new foreword by Martin Davis and a never-before-published memoir by Alan's older brother. The contrast between this memoir and the original biography reveals tensions and sheds new light on Turing's relationship with his family, and on the man himself.
CONTENTS
Foreword to the Centenary Edition page v ii
Prefaceto the First Edition xv iii
Foreword to the First Edition xix
Part One Mainly Biographical
1 Family Backg round 3
2 Childhood and Early Boyhood 9
3 At Sherborne School 24
4 At Cambridge 40
5 At the Graduate College, Princeton 51
6 Some Characteristics 56
7 War Wor k in the Foreig n Office 67
8 At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington 77
9 Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine 88
10 Broadcasts and Intelligent Machinery 100
11 Morphogenesis 102
12 Relaxation 106
13 Last Days and Some Tributes 114
