Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Title: Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Author: Janna Levin
D: 1699793
ISBN: 9781400032402
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 33149th
Number of Pages: 240
Section: Fiction | Historical | General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher 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.