Alan Turing's legacy is even bigger than we realise

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 07:52 in Mathematics & Economics

Alan Turing is one of the world's best-known mathematicians, and probably the best known in the past century. This is partly for his work on cracking German codes in World War II, and partly for his arrest, conviction and punishment for homosexuality in the 1950s. The mathematics that made him famous, however, rarely gets mentioned.

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