Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician,
computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst,
philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical
computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing
machine, which can
be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of
theoretical
computer science and artificial intelligence.
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London,
Turing was educated at Hazelhurst Preparatory School, an
independent school in the village
of Frant in Sussex
at the age of 13, he went on to Sherborne School
Turing continued to show remarkable ability in the studies he
loved, solving advanced problems without having studied
even elementary calculus.
at the age of 16, Turing encountered Albert Einstein's work; he
grasp it and possible that he managed
to deduce Einstein's questioning of Newton's laws of motion
at King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded first-class
honours in mathematics.
at the age of 22, he was elected a fellow of King's on the
strength of a dissertation in which he proved the central
limit theorem.
Turing published his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an
Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"
Turing spent most of his time studying under Church at Princeton
University
Turing obtained his PhD from the Department of Mathematics at
Princeton; introduced the concept of ordinal logic and the notion of relative computing
