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Geniuses at War
Author | : David A. Price |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525521550 |
The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age. Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher. To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, brought in a maverick English working-class engineer named Tommy Flowers who devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that would calculate at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman, Flowers and his team produced—against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership—Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. Drawing upon recently declassified sources, David A. Price’s Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the full mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus and chronicles the remarkable feats of engineering genius that marked the dawn of the digital age.
The Enigma Symposium 1998
Author | : Hugh Skillen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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The Enigma Symposium 2001
Author | : Hugh Skillen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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The Enigma Symposium 1997
Author | : Hugh Skillen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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At the Crossroads of Time
Author | : Andrew C. Scott |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445698331 |
The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.
The Enigma Symposium 1992
Author | : Hugh Skillen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Enigma cipher system |
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Mahathir’s Islam
Author | : Sven Schottmann |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824876474 |
Mahathir Mohamad’s legacy as Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister (1981–2003) is deeply controversial. His engagement with Islam, the religion of just over half Malaysia’s population, has often been dismissed as partisan maneuvering. Yet his willingness to countenance a more prominent place for Islam in government and society is what distinguished him from other modernist politicians, and his instinct to set Malaysian politics against the backdrop of the wider Muslim world was politically astute. Author Sven Schottmann argues that Mahathir’s transformative effect on Malaysia can only be fully appreciated if we also take him seriously as one of the postcolonial Muslim world’s most significant political thought leaders. Schottmann sees Mahathir’s representations of Islam as a relatively coherent discourse that can legitimately be described as “Mahathir’s Islam.” This discourse contains Mahathir’s assessment of the economic, political, and sociocultural problems facing the contemporary Muslim world and the range of solutions and corrective measures that he proposed Muslims should adopt. His ideas are fraught with flaws and contradictions. On the one hand, he emphasized the individualistic, egalitarian, pluralistic, democratic, and dynamic qualities of Islam. On the other, his government enacted legislation and acquiesced in the activities of religious bodies that curtailed religious freedoms of both Muslims and non-Muslims. His ideas contributed to Malaysia’s worsening state of interethnic relations, yet his insistence that every Muslim had the right to speak for Islam may have, paradoxically, prepared the ground for a future democratization of Malaysian politics. Mahathir’s Islam is based on rigorous analysis of Mahathir’s speeches, interviews, and writings, which the author is able to link to parallel processes elsewhere in the Muslim world—Indonesia, the Middle East, Pakistan, Turkey, and diaspora communities in the West. Mahathir’s Islamic discourse, Schottmann suggests, must be read against the wider late twentieth-century resurgence of religion in general, and the post-1970s Islamic revival in particular. Balanced in approach and engagingly written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, religious studies, and others interested in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, or Mahathir himself.