Alan Turing's Involvement In World War II
Alan Turing: His life and involvement in WW2
Harriet Kaye
December 2014
1 Introduction
" amazing quote of Turing ". I wonder if those who knew the young Alan Tur- ing thought he would accomplish such great things in his short life time? If he would make us question the boundaries of science like he has and contribute to saving thousands of lives? If they knew they were talking to a man that would change the lives of people in our life time? Alan Turing is a man not many of us can relate to but as mathematicians, I like to think that we are one step closer than the rest.
2 Early Life
2.1 Family Origins
Looking back through the history of the Turing's the 17th century seems to be the furthest they have been traced. With that, their motto was …show more content…
He then retired to Scotland.
By 1911 there were only 3 groups of the Turing family left. John Robert Turing who was Alan's grandfather and his descendants formed one of the groups. John also took a liking for mathematics studying a degree in the subject at Trinity
College, Cambridge in 1848 where he came 11th in his class. Although his love for the subject didn't last that long as he stopped and changed path to
Ordination and became a Cambridge Curate. John died in 1883 from a stroke but left behind a long line of Turing's having had 10 children.
Julius Mathisan Turing, Alan's father and one of John's children was born in
1873. He in contrast to Alan, had an interest in literature and history. Julius gained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated with a
BA in 1894. It seemed that many of the Turing family excelled in academia gaining degrees, something that wasn't very common at that time. Although
I expect many of us would have guessed that Alan Turing came from such a family. Julius Turing enrolled in the Indian Civil service which had been open
1
to all based on their examinations in the great liberal reform of 1895. …show more content…
Mrs Turing visited Sherbourne before
Alan's rst term to see the headmasters wife, Mrs Nowell to warn her of Alan's characteristics. The following spring Alan passed the entrance exam and was accepted. At last, Alan was learning the things he took great interest in, excelling in sci- ence. However he didn't excel at everything, he started o in a form called
'Shell', a group of boys a year older than himself who were not particularly bright. Even when he moved up he was only ever in an average class; not that
Alan cared. He seemed to live in his own world where his only priorities were to perform chemistry experiments and work out advanced mathematics. Both things I can imagine didn't make him very popular. One teacher was amazed by Alan's ability, that's right, his maths teacher. In 1927 Alan, who was not at all impressed with the maths level given, showed his teacher his how he worked out the in nite series for inverse tan,
Harriet Kaye
December 2014
1 Introduction
" amazing quote of Turing ". I wonder if those who knew the young Alan Tur- ing thought he would accomplish such great things in his short life time? If he would make us question the boundaries of science like he has and contribute to saving thousands of lives? If they knew they were talking to a man that would change the lives of people in our life time? Alan Turing is a man not many of us can relate to but as mathematicians, I like to think that we are one step closer than the rest.
2 Early Life
2.1 Family Origins
Looking back through the history of the Turing's the 17th century seems to be the furthest they have been traced. With that, their motto was …show more content…
He then retired to Scotland.
By 1911 there were only 3 groups of the Turing family left. John Robert Turing who was Alan's grandfather and his descendants formed one of the groups. John also took a liking for mathematics studying a degree in the subject at Trinity
College, Cambridge in 1848 where he came 11th in his class. Although his love for the subject didn't last that long as he stopped and changed path to
Ordination and became a Cambridge Curate. John died in 1883 from a stroke but left behind a long line of Turing's having had 10 children.
Julius Mathisan Turing, Alan's father and one of John's children was born in
1873. He in contrast to Alan, had an interest in literature and history. Julius gained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated with a
BA in 1894. It seemed that many of the Turing family excelled in academia gaining degrees, something that wasn't very common at that time. Although
I expect many of us would have guessed that Alan Turing came from such a family. Julius Turing enrolled in the Indian Civil service which had been open
1
to all based on their examinations in the great liberal reform of 1895. …show more content…
Mrs Turing visited Sherbourne before
Alan's rst term to see the headmasters wife, Mrs Nowell to warn her of Alan's characteristics. The following spring Alan passed the entrance exam and was accepted. At last, Alan was learning the things he took great interest in, excelling in sci- ence. However he didn't excel at everything, he started o in a form called
'Shell', a group of boys a year older than himself who were not particularly bright. Even when he moved up he was only ever in an average class; not that
Alan cared. He seemed to live in his own world where his only priorities were to perform chemistry experiments and work out advanced mathematics. Both things I can imagine didn't make him very popular. One teacher was amazed by Alan's ability, that's right, his maths teacher. In 1927 Alan, who was not at all impressed with the maths level given, showed his teacher his how he worked out the in nite series for inverse tan,