A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines - Janna Levin

Kurt Gdel's Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna's intellectual circles
and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein's dominant philosophy. Alan Turing's
mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they
never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another-both were brilliant, and both
met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives
into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant,
fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.