A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
 

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

by Janna Levin

In this remarkable work of fiction, astrophysicist Janna Levin reimagines the lives of two of the most important and influential minds of our time.

The narrator is a scientist herself, a physicist obsessed with Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of many centuries, and with Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician, breaker of the Enigma Code during World War II. “They are... (read more)

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slatrat
  • Rated 4 stars

The latest book in my incompleteness, quantum binge. A very accessible very entertaining and just bizarre enough novel on Godel and Turing. Good stuff!

I disagree with Greg's review below. I didn't find the book at all complicated. Instead I thought it was quite straight forward and even compelling.

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Greg
  • Rated 1 stars

This book was clearly written by a scientist and not a writer. The language is often overly complicated and difficult to read. It lacks flow and the author relies on poorly used analogies, which are obviously her favorite literary technique.

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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