![]() ![]() In her 1959 biography of her son, Sarah Turing devoted just a short chapter to the war, noting: After World War II, Turing then turned to the foundations of computer science, including his famous popular paper on whether a machine can think, which introduced the “Turing test,” the original imitation game.īut for the period of the war itself, almost nothing was known of Turing’s activities. ![]() In order to do this Turing introduced the concept of what is now termed a “Turing machine,” a mathematical abstraction of an algorithm. In the years immediately prior to World War II, Turing had solved Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem, that is, the “decision problem,” whether there exists a mechanical procedure for determining if a mathematical statement expressed in a formal language has a proof. In 1970, Alan Turing was best known for his work in two areas: mathematical logic and computer science. The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game. ![]()
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