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The official book behind the film, The Imitation Game, this is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of Alan Turing, one of Britain's most extraordinary unsung heroes, and one of the world's greatest innovators.
This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing, the pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code, and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown released a statement of apology in 2009 on behalf of the British government for the "appalling" treatment of Turing.

베네딕트 컴버배치, 키이라 나이틀리 주연의 영화 The Imitation Game은 앤드류 호지스의 저서인 Alan Turing: The Enigma를 바탕으로 만들어졌다.

영국의 수학자인 알란 튜링은 2차 대전 당시 독일군의 암호를 해독해냄으로써 수세에 있던 연합군의 전세를 일시에 우세로 바꿔 놓은 인물이다. 1938년 영국 정보부에 의해 기용된 캠브리지대 교수 출신의 알란 튜링은 공학 기술에 대한 재능과 탁월한 논리를 결합시켰다. 그리고,1940년 마침내 그가 고안한 기계들은 이니그마로 암호화된 나치 독일 공군의 전문을 해독해냈다. 그리고 곧바로 무적의 독일 잠수함인 U 보트 전단이 사용하던 최고 보안 등급의 통신망도 뚫었다. 알란 튜링이 가졌던 비전은 그가 당시 이루어낸 성취보다 훨씬 멀리 내다 보았다. 2차 대전이 시작되기 전에 그는 이미 다용도로 사용할 수 있는 기계에 대한 개념을 개발해 놓고 있었으며, 1945년 이것을 세계 최초의 디지털 컴퓨터로 발전시켰다. 디지털 시대를 예고한 튜링의 앞선 생각들은 인공지능을 염두해 둔 것들이었다. 1952년 동성애로 체포되어 사회적으로 모욕을 당했던 그는 불행히도 41세의 나이에 스스로 목숨을 끊었다.

What the critics say

One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
- Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

Andrew Hodges' book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
- Time Out

A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind
- New York Times Book Review

One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
- New Yorker

A first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind…it is hard to imagine a more thoughtful and warm biography than this one
- New York Times Book Review

One of the finest scientific biographies I’ve ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic and beautifully told
- Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

Andrew Hodge’s book is of exemplary scholarship and sympathy. Intimate, perceptive and insightful, it’s also the most readable biography I’ve picked up in some time
- Time Out

One of the finest scientific biographies ever written
- New Yorker

Save your money for the forthcoming new edition of Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, regarded by many as one of the greatest biographies of anyone, let along Turing
- BBC Focus Magazine

This book stands the test of time. It is a labour of love…compelling
- Energy and Technology

Authoritative biography
- BBC online

Hodges's biography is sensitive, sympathetic and uncompromisingly intellectual. The maths is extremely hard work ? but helps the lay reader to appreciate the scale of Turing's achievements
- Independent on Sunday

A rich and fascinating portrait of a genius whose life was tragically ended before its time
- Gay Times

Synopsis

The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley

Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.

But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.

Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.