Alan Turing: The Enigma


Alan Turing: The Enigma is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization.
WWW turing.org.uk/book

Editions

The following editions of the book exist:
;Hardback
;Paperback
New editions appeared in 2012, for the centenary of Turing's birth, and 2014, the year the film The Imitation Game was released.
;Audio

Reviews

The book has been widely reviewed by newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Independent, Los Angeles Times, Nature, New Statesman, New Yorker, The New York Times, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Physics Today, Sunday Times, Time Out, Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal.

Influence

The book inspired the 2014 film The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.