does anyone know what alan turing invented?

Question

i have this mathematician project that counts as my semester exam and i cant find what my guy invented or how he contributed to math

Answer 1

Turing is considered to be the father of modern computer science. The "Turing Machine" is a widely-accepted model of computing, telling us what computers can and cannot do. The link tells you much more...

Answer 2

Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. He later worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, although it was never actually built. In 1948 he moved to the University of Manchester to work on the Manchester Mark I, then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers.

During the Second World War Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

In 1952, Turing was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo estrogen therapy to achieve temporary chemical castration.[1] Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. His death was ruled a suicide.

There is a artifical inteligence contest named after him, to test whether computers can fool people into thinking they are people.

Answer 3

Mark Zuckerberg himself said that he doesn't beleive in God. Not sure about Alan Turing. And Alan Turing never invented the web.

Answer 4

Alan Turing did a lot of work formalizing algorithms and invented the Turing Machine, a conceptual machine designed to be able to mimic the logic of any other computational machine. He was also instrumental to Allied efforts in cryptography during WWII. He worked at Bletchley Park and helped in cracking Enigma.

Answer 5

Alan Turing basically created the modern computer on paper - His designs are still used today to create computers! His theoretical work in mathmatics paved the way for computers - this is what he is most famous for!

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

I believe he was the man who cracked the so-called enigma code during the second world war that enabled the allies to decipher the secret moves of Germany's submarine fleet.
Here's a website with info:

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

Answer 7

He broke the Enigma Code in WW2. There are books about him, and one or two films (I remember him being played by Derek Jacobi).
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Answer 8

Part of the technology that resulted in the TV

Answer 9

The "Turning machine"

Answer 10

check out this web site.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/