Alan Turing

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Birth Name: Alan Mathison Turing

Born: 23 June 1912 Died: 7 June 1954

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Relationship Status: In a relationship

Partner: Joan Clarke

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Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius

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Alan Turing's Pilot Ace computer - the world's first general purpose computer

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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS, was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was the first to conceptualize the modern computer, a device that became known as the Universal Turing machine.

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"“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.” ― Alan Turing “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuiti"