• Why One of the 20th Century’s Most Important Thinkers Remains So Relevant in the 21st Century

    Andrew Hodges in Conversation with Andrew Keen About Alan Turing

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

    In this episode, Andrew is joined by Andrew Hodges, author of The Great Philosophers: Turing.

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    Andrew Hodges is Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His classic text of 1983, Alan Turing: The Enigma, since translated into several languages, created a new kind of biography, with mathematics, science, computing, war history, philosophy and gay liberation woven into a single personal narrative. He is an active contributor to the mathematics of fundamental physics, as a follower of Roger Penrose.


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