Alan Turing’s Death – Cause and Date

The mathematician Alan Turing died at the age of 41. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Mathematician who devised a test of artificial intelligence and created an early model of a general purpose computer. During World War II he did code-breaking for the British Army and developed several techniques for breaking German ciphers.

His parents were named Ethel Sara Turing and Julius Mathison.

Quotes

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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” (Alan Turing)

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“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” (Alan Turing)

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“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.” (Alan Turing)

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“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.” (Alan Turing)

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“No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.” (Alan Turing)