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A madman dreams of Turing machines

Author: Janna Levin
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Biographical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Levin, Janna.
Madman dreams of Turing machines.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
(OCoLC)607753855
Online version:
Levin, Janna.
Madman dreams of Turing machines.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
(OCoLC)607898966
Named Person: Kurt Gödel; Alan Mathison Turing; Kurt Gödel; Alan Mathison Turing
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Janna Levin
ISBN: 1400040302 9781400040308
OCLC Number: 62742573
Description: 230 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Janna Levin.
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Abstract:

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.

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