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Product details
- ISBN 9780750999946
- Dimensions: 178 x 257mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2022
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing’s involvement in the world’s first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality.
Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?
JONATHAN SWINTON has a PhD in mathematics and has worked as a mathematical biologist for thirty years, including as a Visiting Professor in the University of Oxford and as a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He has published several articles on Alan Turing's work on Fibonacci patterns, and in 2012 conceived the international citizen science project Turing's Sunflowers. Alan Turing's Manchester is his first book on Manchester, where he has lived, worked and loved since 2002.
