Swinton, Jonathan
Alan Turing's Manchester
- ISBN 13:
- 9780750999946
- author:
- Swinton, Jonathan
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- The History Press Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 210
- Dimensions:
- 25.7 x 17.8 centimetres (0.63 kg
- Genre:
- Biography, Science & Technology, Nonfiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Alan Turing's Manchester explores the complex city that Alan Turing encountered in 1948. Beyond his work as a mathematician, Dr Jonathan Swinton delves into the lives of wire-women, philosophers like Wittgenstein, and the cultural landscape of post-war Manchester.
This book takes readers on a journey across the city, from its residential areas to the Festival of Britain and the Oxford Road's seminar rooms and pick-up sites. A richly illustrated account of lives lived in this period, it also examines one life cut tragically short as Manchester was busy creating the computer.
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