Posted on 23/08/06
BOOK A DAY
A Madman Dreamsof Turing MachinesJanna LevinKnopf, 232 pages, $31.95Janna Levin is a cosmologist at Columbia University, which means the universe is her theme. But in this very smart first novel, she narrows her range considerably by taking as her subjects two highly unstable geniuses -- the delusion-prone Austrian logician Kurt Godel and the suicidal English code-breaker Alan Turing.
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