{"product_id":"2940169523652","title":"The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ¿skillful, literate¿ (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating ¿treatment¿ that may have led to his suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a novelist¿s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity¿his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor¿and elegantly explains his work and its implications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101892952304,"sku":"2940169523652","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169523652_p0.jpg?v=1769896128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169523652","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}