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- Birth nameAlan Mathison Turing
- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Turochamp (1948). He died on June 7, 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK.
- He was posthumously inducted into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor in 2014.
- When his homosexuality came to light, the British government gave him the choice of either jail time or chemical castration. He chose chemical castration.
- Jack Copeland, a professor of philosophy, credited him with shortening the war in Europe by 2-4 years, and in the process saving 14-21 million lives. However this does not take into account the fact that the United States would still have developed atomic weapons by 1945. It also overlooks the Soviet contribution.
- He was the uncle of Dermot Turing.
- In 2020 an official history of UK spy agency GCHQ said Bletchley Park's contribution to World War II is often overrated by the British public.
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
- Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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