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Topic: Alan Turing

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Most admires:Albert Einstein,  Bernito Mussolini,  Henry Ford
Favorite artist(s):Rolf Harris
Favorite era(s):1930s,  1900s,  1950s
Favorite actor(s):Errol Flynn
Favorite great thinker(s):Alan Turing,  Ada Lovelace,  Archimedes
Interest(s):Maths,  Numerology
Favorite movie(s):A Beautiful Mind,  Titanic,  Good Will Hunting
Favorite philosopher(s):Descartes
Favorite quote(s):"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Alan Turing was a mathematician who drew up the abstract prototype for the computer.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

It was developed by English scientist Alan Turing and his crew in likeness of the Enigma: a computer stolen from the Nazi Germans.
Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer

Alan Mathison Turing committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Alan Turing was born in London in 1912.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers , introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Alan Turing is probably the 20th-century mathematician whose research has had the most importance outside the abstract field of logic.
The title is based on a quote from the mathematician Alan Turing who claimed in 1950 that machines would one day be able to think like humans.
Alan Turing was a British mathematician famous for the invention of the theoretical Turing machine and for the deciphering of the German codes during World War II.
 
 
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