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English Heritage plaque in Maida Vale, London marking Turing's birthplace in 1912. Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing, was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service (ICS) of the British Raj government at Chatrapur, then in the Madras Presidency and presently in Odisha state, in India.
A biography published by the Royal Society shortly after Turing's death, [3] while his wartime work was still subject to the Official Secrets Act, recorded: . Three remarkable papers written just before the war, on three diverse mathematical subjects, show the quality of the work that might have been produced if he had settled down to work on some big problem at that critical time.
Turing is shown holding an apple, a symbol classically used to represent forbidden love, as well as being the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the object that inspired Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation, and the means of Turing's own death. The text on the bronze bench reads "Alan Mathison Turing 1912–1954" and "IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ".
The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, [1] is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, [2] a pioneer of modern computing Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts).
The Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing studied at King's College, Cambridge, from 1931. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS / ˈ tj ʊər ɪ ŋ / (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. He provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
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