But as a teenager turing was told by a teacher that he. While alan turing’s remarkable legacy and contributions to the allied war effort have been celebrated in recent years, it is important to remember the disgraceful persecution he faced on. Many years ago i bumped into someone who used to pick on me at school.
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It was alan turing’s mathematical genius that cracked the enigma encryption used by the nazis and helped win wwii for the allies.
While alan turing, who brought bayesian statistics and cryptographic genius to bletchley park during the war, showed 'distinct promise' in maths, his ideas in physics were deemed vague and.
Nowadays alan would probably have been. His report cards from the time suggest he was far from a model pupil. As an adult, he had to hide his sexual orientation from his friends and. In the 1929 summer term report card from sherborne school in dorset, turing's physics teacher writes:
Alan turing at sherborne school in 1928, aged 16. The young turing is unhappy and bullied at boarding school. It is still very common for geekishly irritating little boys and girls to suffer misunderstanding and routine bullying at school. He went on become a famous wartime codebreaker but when alan turing was a child his teachers told him they wanted sound knowledge rather than vague ideas from the mathematician.
He develops a friendship with christopher morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography.
