Essay on the life of Alan Turing and a discription of his life work.

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Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician who pioneered the basics of computer theory. Alan was born London and attended school at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. In 1936, Turing published a paper called "On Computable Numbers," which introduced the concept of the Turing machine. The Turing machine was a theoretical computing device, which could theoretically perform any mathematical calculation. Soon after, he chose to study artificial intelligence and biological forms. He proposed …

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…MacTuror History of Mathematics Archive offers information on the life and work of British Mathematician Alan Turing 2.http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Turing.html a.This privately maintained site includes a biography and an interview with Alan Turing. 3.http://www.turing.org.uk/turing a.This privately maintained site includes a chronology of British mathematician Alan Turing's life, a brief biography with descriptions of his work, an in-depth scrapbook, and links to related sties.