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He committed suicide on 7 June 1954.
In 1952 he was prosecuted for his homosexual relationships with a young man in Manchester. He had long been open about his sexuality but he was prosecuted under the same legislation as used against Oscar Wilde in the previous century.
Even in his lifetime Alan Turing did not go unrecognised; despite his lack of political skills he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 and made an OBE in 1946 for his war time work.
Alan Mathison Turing: Scientist,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mathematician, Pioneer of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
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History of Colossus Computer and Alan Turing
An Introduction to Turing's Imitation Game
Alan Turing: A Short Biography
Alan Turing, the Enigma is a major work and is a good read but it should be borne in mind that much of the content is detailed descriptions of Turing’s work and concepts. Whilst there is little detailed mathematics the ideas may be challenging for readers without a mathematical or scientific background, or at least an interest.
Substantial and Wide Ranging Read
Alan Turing was born in London on 23 June 1912. He was an independent minded boy, and man, who followed his own interests in science. He got a good Mathematics degree at King’s College,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Cambridge University Although his research was wide ranging, including biology, his best known works are in the field of mathematics and formed the basis of modern computing through the Turing Universal Machine and the Turing Test for proving artificial intelligence.
That apart Alan Turing, the Enigma is an enthralling story and, if they wish, general readers can skip through the heavier sections and concentrate on the human story. But that would be to miss the breadth and =variety of Alan Turing’s contribution to cryptanalysis, mathematics, computing and artificial intelligence.
His later work brought together mathematics and biology especially with regard to how physical forms occur in nature.
Alan Mathison Turing became news in 2009 when computer scientist John Graham-Cumming and other eminent scientists supported by gay rights’ activists called for an apology from the British government for Turing’s treatment as an openly gay man. An unusually speedy response came from the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with an apology in the Daily Telegraph.
It also provides an insight into the history of Bletchley Park and the use of intelligence (initially half hearted and with a nineteenth century mindset) in the conduct of the Second World War.
He was also a leading light at Bletchley Park in the breaking of the German Enigma code during the Second World War. He continued to provide part-time consultancy on cryptography to the British government and designed and programmed the first general purpose British computer at Manchester University. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work.
However the Alan Turing, the man and his life is fascinating. He was incredibly gifted and his interests ranged widely from pure and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, electronic engineering, even biology and philosophy of science. He lacked social skills which would have enabled him to have achieved greater prominence but even so he had one of the best scientific minds of twentieth century. His work led directly to what we would now call computer science or information technology.
A Fascinating Life Story and a Great Mind
The author,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Andrew Hodges, uses frequent literary allusions throughout particularly Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. Lewis Carroll’s realname was Charles Dodgson and he was a mathematician himse
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