Dimensions
136 x 216 x 19mm
Bridging fiction and nonfiction to tell an evocative tale of coded secrets, psychotic delusions, mathematical truth and lies, this story of genius and hallucination is based on the parallel lives of Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. Janna Levin tells their parallel lives in a haunting story of tortured genius, persecution and death. Godel became delusional and paranoid to the point he starved himself to death. Turing, despite his brilliant war work, was hounded to destruction because he was homosexual. Both men devoted their lives to the highest truths of abstract nature, yet were unable to grapple with the everyday world. A MADMAN DREAMS OF TURING MACHINES is a haunting, elegaic story that flows back and forth between Turing, Godel and the author.
