Life of Alan Turing

Skills you'll gain

Modules

9 modules in this path

1. 1. Early years

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1912 chapter: Born in London

     I arrive, inconveniently, between two worlds

2. 2. Work & ideas

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1931–1934 chapter: Undergraduate studies at King's College, Cambridge

     The boy who proved what he didn't know was already proven

3. 3. Highlights

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1936 chapter: Published 'On Computable Numbers'

     I have built a machine in my mind that can do anything any machine can do.

4. 4. Work & ideas

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

   • lesson

     Understand Alan Turing's 1938 chapter: Earned doctorate from Princeton University

     Doctor Turing, they say. I still prefer to take my tea with four sugars and no ceremony.

5. 5. Highlights

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1939–1945 chapter: Led naval cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park

     Autobiography life-chapter (highlight, mid, stance=in_the_mo

6. 6. Work & ideas

   2 life chapters

   What's included: 2 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1945–1948 chapter: Designed the Automatic Computing Engine

     Designing a machine that could outthink its blueprint

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1948 chapter: Joined University of Manchester

     From logic to life itself

7. 7. Controversies & turning points

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1952 chapter: Prosecuted for homosexual acts

     What the machine could not compute

8. 8. Later years

   1 life chapter

   What's included: 1 lessons

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     Understand Alan Turing's 1954 chapter: Death from cyanide poisoning

     A computation I could not halt

9. 9. Legacy

   3 life chapters

   What's included: 3 lessons

   • lesson

     Understand Alan Turing's 2009 chapter: Official government apology

     An apology I never lived to read

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     Understand Alan Turing's 2013 chapter: Royal pardon granted

     A queen's signature, fifty-nine years late

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     Understand Alan Turing's 2021 chapter: Featured on Bank of England £50 note

     A face on paper that outlasts the hand that signed the warrant

Teachers

Alan Turing

computation · AI