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The man behind the machine

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Alan Turing is famous for many reasons. Andrew Hodges delves into why Turing's achievements took so long to be recognized.

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  1. Andrew Hodges is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, UK, and author of Alan Turing: the Enigma.,

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