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A madman dreams of Turing machines

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  • "In a saga of genius, madness, and scientific accomplishment, a physicist obsessed with logician Kurt Godel and mathematician Alan Turing chronicles the lives of both men in parallel narratives that reveal each man's great achievements and sorry death."
  • "Mise en parallèle des parcours singuliers de deux mathématiciens obsédés par les questions philosophiques, Kurt Gödel et Alan Turing. Retrace les rencontres de Gödel avec Wittgenstein, l'assassinat de son ami Moritz Schlick, son exil et sa difficile vie de couple, les traumatismes du jeune Turing pendant ses années d'internat, ses amours malheureux et sa condamnation pour homosexualité."
  • "Overview: Kurt Godel'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."

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "A madman dreams of Turing machines"
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  • "Een bezetene droomt van turingmachines"
  • "A madman dreams of Turing machines : [a novel]"
  • "Un fou rêve de machines de Turing"

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