Bbc alan turing biography

Alan Turing was born on 23 June, , in London. His father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing's parents lived in India until his father's retirement in Turing and his brother stayed with friends and relatives in England.

Alan Turing - Wikipedia

Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and subsequently taught there, working in the burgeoning world of quantum mechanics. It was at Cambridge that he developed the proof which states that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems. This concept, also known as the Turing machine, is considered the basis for the modern theory of computation.

In , Turing went to Princeton University in America, returning to England in He began to work secretly part-time for the British cryptanalytic department, the Government Code and Cypher School.

On the outbreak of war he took up full-time work at its headquarters, Bletchley Park.

Here he played a vital role in deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine, which provided vi Breaking the Code - Wikipedia WEHAB