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Alan Turing  Cover Image Book Book

Alan Turing / written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Ashling Lindsay.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0711246785 : SAL
  • ISBN: 9780711246782 : SAL
  • ISBN: 9780711246775
  • ISBN: 0711246777
  • ISBN: 9780711246782
  • ISBN: 0711246785
  • Physical Description: 28 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published as: Pequeño & grande Alan Turing.
Summary, etc.:
In this book discover the life of Alan Turing, the genius code cracker and father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Alan grew up in England, where his best friends were numbers and a little boy called Christopher. When his young friend died, Alan retreated to the world of numbers and codes, where he discovered how to crack the code of the Nazi Enigma machine.
Target Audience Note:
Junior primary school age.
Language Note:
Translated from the Spanish.
Subject: Turing, Alan, 1912-1954 > Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Gay men > Great Britain > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.
Mathematicians.
Gay men.
Genre: Biographies.
Picture books.
Creative nonfiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terryville Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Terryville Public Library jB TURING (Text) 34028146992129 Juvenile Biography Available -


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