Alan Turing was a great genius mathematician who cracked the German Enigma codes saving thousands of lives in the Second World War. Such an astonishing, crucial life as Turing's deserves public honour and public recognition for courageous life and achievements. The Imitation Game does justice to a great British hero and a story of incredible triumph against impossible odds.
Alan Turing the mathematician and crypto-analyst led the team that cracked the Nazi's Enigma code machine and turned the tide of the war is one of Britain's most unsung heroes.
Alan Turing proved in his 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers," that a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist.
Alan Turing was born June 23, 1912. At a young age, he displayed signs of high intelligence, particularly interested in math and science.
In Cambridge, England, studying there from 1931 to 1934. As a result of his Cambridge dissertation he proved the central limit theorem and was elected a fellow .
In 1936, Turing delivered a paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," presenting the idea of a universal machine (later called the “Universal Turing Machine," and then the "Turing machine") capable of computing anything that is computable: The central concept of the modern computer was based on Turing’s paper.
Over the next two years, Turing studied mathematics and cryptology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, he returned to Cambridge, and then took a part-time position with the Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking organization.