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==Biography==
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|author=Sara Turing
|title=Alan M Turing: Centenary Edition
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=June 2012 will see the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, brilliant mathematician, the man who played a major part in breaking the Enigma codes in the Second World War and is widely thought to be the father of computer science. To celebrate the anniversary Cambridge University Press have reprinted a short biography written by Turing's mother and included a memoir written by his older brother, John. I'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Dominic Carman|family members]] particularly when they're still coming to terms with their own grief, but this book is startling for what it says about the family members as much as for what it says about Alan Turing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1107020581</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally E Svenson
