An example was when he worked at Bletchley Park he would chain his mug to a room heater to prevent it from getting stolen. People that worked with Alan Turing noted his eccentric behaviours. This was an almost impossible task since the Germans changed the codes every day.
Turing’s greatest achievement at that time was cracking the Enigma, a German device used to send highly classified messages. The army had 200 bombe machines created to help with the war.
This machine was able to decode more than 4000 messages a day. They were able to shorten the decoding steps. Together with his colleague Gordon Welchman, they designed a codebreaking machine called bombe. He immediately got to work on cracking the Enigma code. In 1939, Turing worked for the British Intelligence team at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing is the father of computer Science They travelled often between London and India since his father worked for the Indian Civil Service.Īlthough they briefly lived in India with their parents, the parents preferred to have their children grow up in England. Their parents worked in India and would occasionally visit. Together with his older brother John, they lived with foster parents, a retired army couple. Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London. Alan Turing grew up away from his parents Their house is now a historical landmark with a blue plaque. His parents bought a house in Guilford where he stayed during school holidays. He excelled in history and classical classes too despite being less attentive and active during the classes. Growing up, Turing loved playing chess and solving complex problems, unlike his peers.
He was able to work out several of his equations some of which were never solved. When he turned 16, Turing came across Albert Einstein’s work. He was able to solve advanced mathematical problems at the age of 14.
His headmistress was among the first adults to notice his talents. Turing loved numbers from a very young age.
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