Isaac Huerta and William Clayton in 'Formulae & Fairy Tales' If you own a laptop or smartphone, you’re indebted to the genius of British mathematician Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker and ...
Turing is credited as one of the founding fathers of computing. Mathematician and World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing, has been honored by the Bank of England as the new face of the 50 pound note.
Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...