Paradoxical deaths and destinies, yet they do not eclipse the case of Rousselot, oftheenigma that imperceptibly enveloped his life, the sense that his work, his writing, stood near or on the edge of something he knew almost nothing about.
This used thelifeof Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul ofthe homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.