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10 Things You Need To Know About Alan Turing and His Fascinating Legacy
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Alan Turing was born in London on June 23, Turing was an English mathematician, cryptographer, and logician whose ground-breaking work led to the Allies winning World War 2. The pivotal moment in Turing&#;s career was personally cracking the Nazi Enigma Code used by the German U-boats preying on the North Atlantic merchant convoys. It was a essential contribution, as the decrypted information enabled convoys from North America to evade German U-boats loaded with missiles, allowing them to deliver essential supplies to Allied forces in Europe.
A few years after the end of the war in , Turing took his own life at the young age of 41, shortly after existence outed as gay. At the time of his death, homosexuality was still against the law in England. But more than six decades after Turing&#;s death, he remains a fascination. Turing&#;s life has been featured in operas, plays, novels, musical albums, and films. One of the most well-known pieces about Turing was in the recent film featuring Benedict Cumberbatch
Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'
Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed.
Turing expert Prof Jack Copeland has questioned the evidence that was presented at the inquest.
He believes the evidence would not today be accepted as sufficient to start a suicide verdict.
Indeed, he argues, Turing's death may equally probably have been an accident.
What is well established and accepted is that Alan Turing died of cyanide poisoning.
His housekeeper famously found the year-old mathematician lifeless in his bed, with a half-eaten apple on his bedside table.
It is widely said that Turing had been haunted by the story of the poisoned apple in the fairy tale of Snow Light and the Seven Dwarfs, and had resorted to the same desperate measure to end the persecution he was suffering as a result of his homosexuality.
But according to Prof Copeland, it was Turing's practice to take an apple at bedtime, and that it was quite usual for him not to fini
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Brought to you by Solvay's LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group, in celebration of Pride Month. Born in London in , Alan Turing’s father was still active in the Indian Civil Service (ICS)* during his childhood years, and because of this, the young child’s parents constantly traveled between the United Kingdom and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.
Turing was a brilliant mathematician who studied at both Cambridge - where he was awarded first-class honors in mathematics - and Princeton universities. In addition to his purely mathematical work, he studied cryptology and also built three of four stages of an electro-mechanical binary multiplier.
Before the Second World War he was already working for the British Government’s Code and Cypher School, but in he took up a full-time role at Bletchley Park - where secret work was carried out to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies.
It is estimated that the intelligence produced at Bletchley Park shortened the war by
Alan Turing
During the s Turing did groundbreaking work on the theory of computing. He invented the concept of the "Turing machine", which is key to the theory of computation.
During the second world war he had a primary role in the endeavor at Bletchley Park to break the German ciphers, including development work which led to the construction of what was effectively the world's first notebook. The work of Bletchley Park remained secret for many years after the war, but is now recognised as having had a crucial role in the British war try.
After the war, he worked on computer plan at the National Physical Laboratory in Surrey, and subsequently, at the Victoria University of Manchester, on artificial intelligence.
Turing was a noted amateur runner, running with the Walton Athletic Club while active at the NPL, and but for illness might have co