A Brief History of Alan Turing (Imitation Game)

In this episode, we cover the history of Alan Turing, A 20th-century English polymath, who is considered by many to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing was a pivotal codebreaking figure during WWII, and due to this, much of his cryptologic was unknown to the public until 2012. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F... DISCORD ►►   / discord   PATREON ►►   / moderndaymath   -- TIMESTAMPS -- 0:00 Intro screen 0:10 Intro 0:38 Early Life 3:16 Undergrad + Gaussian paper 3:49 Computable Numbers and the Decision Problem 5:31 Church-Turing Thesis 6:33 Princeton + Pre-PhD work 7:20 WWII: The Bombe 12:03 Secure voice systems 13:16 Computers and Algorithms 14:58 Imitation Game 15:40 Morphogenesis 16:30 Quantum 17:06 Personal 18:16 Christopher Morcom 19:20 Joan Clarke 19:54 Conviction 21:21 Death 22:35 Legacy 24:38 Outro