Alan mathison turing 23 june 1912 7 june 1954, was an english mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. Turing introduced his abstract turing machines in his first major publication, on computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem 1936. Alan turing author of computing machinery and intelligence. Alan mathison turing 19121954 was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. While studying at cambridge he began work in predicate logic that led to a proof 1937 that some mathematical problems are not susceptible to solution by automated computation. Since the completion of his computer, turing has been written about numerous times, the most notable being in the book alan turing.
But he said the family never had any of alan turing s books. See more ideas about alan turing, enigma machine and the imitation game. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. A book from alan turing and a mysterious piece of paper. This then inspired the awardwinning film the imitation game, released in 2014, starring benedict cumberbatch as alan turing. List of books and articles about alan turing online. See more ideas about alan turing, bletchley park and history.
The book that inspired the film the imitation game. When i first got interested in computers all you really heard about was the turing test the idea of testing if a computer could think by having a conversation by teletype and seeing if you could. It is a useful primer for andrew hodges biography alan turing. The book that inspired the film the imitation game media tiein by hodges, andrew isbn. Nov 29, 2014 the man is a certified genius and is credited with changing the course of history by cracking the german enigma code, creating the first computer in the process.
Leech is now regularly described as the architect of turings pardon and subsequently the alan turing law which went on to secure pardons for 75,000 other men and women convicted of similar crimes. Dermot turing who recently wrote a biography of alan turing told me about granny turing aka sara turing, whose house apparently shared a garden gate with his familys, and many other things about alan turing. The best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 20 it is to alan turing godfather of the digital universe, voracious reader, tragic hero of his eras inhumane bigotry that we owe an enormous amount of todays givens, including my writing this very sentence and your reading it. Turing, father of the modern computer rutherford journal. Alan turing is a name that has grown in stature over the years. Alan mathison turing, 191254, british mathematician and computer theorist. Turing and the computer by paul strathern goodreads.