Free (Kindle) Alan M. Turing: Centenary [Gay Mathematician Codebreaker Family Memoir]

[ATDrake]

Claiming the allotted selected 3rd (non-repeat) ebook thread of the day a bit early, since the last time a CUP freebie popped up and I went to fix myself lunch before checking to see where else it was available, it had disappeared by the time I was done, and I definitely don't want you to miss out on this one.

Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition by Sara Turing with forewords by Lyn Irvine & Martin Davis and an afterword by John F. Turing is a revised and expanded edition of the family's reminisces on the groundbreaking mathematician and cryptanalyst (Wikipedia), among many other important science-y type things, who's pretty much influenced all our modern computer stuff, before he suicided due to persecution for being gay in 50s-era England, which was not a good time or place to be gay in a non-strictly "happy and carefree" sense, free courtesy of publisher Cambridge University Press, who have combined Turing's mother's biography with the previously unpublished memoir written by his older brother, along with some additional new material.

Actually, this is very probably a glitch freebie, but it's still a really nice-looking one and if you happen to miss it, it's currently at around $12 CAD couponable @ Kobo, which, from the looks of it, is pretty cheap for a CUP book which isn't some kind of single-work literature-examining thing.

Currently free for who knows how long @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK).

And this has been the (advance) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day. (The others will go up at the usual time tonight.)

Because I ♥︎ Alan Turing, and you should too. And now I think I'm going to rewatch Enigma (IMDB, Wikipedia), which is a flawed but enjoyable Bletchley Park-set mystery thriller film with Kate Winslet in it based on a reasonably-decent Robert Harris novel, tonight, in the absence of access to the latest biopic they made or the new women codebreaker-centric mystery series, The Bletchley Circle (Wikipedia), which I keep meaning to try.

Enjoy!

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 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.