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Title : Alan M Turing Centenary Edition Hardcover: 194 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Centenary edition edition (22 Mar. 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1107020581  ISBN-13: 978-1107020580 Description :  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 n...

ÆTHELRED THE UNREADY LEVI ROACH Title : ÆTHELRED THE UNREADY  Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Yale University Press (2 Sept. 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0300196296 ISBN-13: 978-0300196290 Description :  An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred 'the Unready', one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred 'the Unready' (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised. Infamous for his domestic and international failures, Aethelred was unable to fend off successive Viking raids, leading to the notorious St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002, during which Danes in England were slaughtered on his orders. Though Aethelred's posthumous standing is dominated by his unsuccessful military leadership, his seemingly blind trust in disloyal associates, and his harsh treatment of political opponents, Roach suggests that Aethelred has been wrongly mali...