Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician, logician (逻辑学家) and cryptographer (译解密码者). He was born in London on June 23, 1912.  

His parents worked in India while Turing and his brother spent their childhoods in Britain. Turing’s loneliness during this time might have led to his lifelong interest in how the human mind works. He believed that the mind creates its own world when the real world is not acceptable to it. At 13, he already showed a talent(天赋) for maths.

After graduating from Cambridge University, he remained there as a teacher. At that time, his interest in the human mind led him to draw a machine. He described it as a typewriter-like device (装置).

In 1937, Turing wrote a report about his machine. However, few people understood what he was talking about. But this report changed Turing’s whole life. After the start of World War II, the British Government ordered him to serve a special department. The task of working there was to break codes used by the Nazis (纳粹).

Turing’s talent shone in this top-secret work. He played a major role in designing an early computer-like machine that could decode(译解) Nazi codes at a high speed.

After the war, he was offered the chance to build a machine based on his ideas in 1937. After building his machine, he continued to write and think. He saw a bright future of what is now known as the computer. But other parts of his life were very unhappy. On June 7, 1954, he killed himself.

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