The importance of Alan Turing’s work
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Well, it depends on what you mean by his “work”, he did a great deal of things.
“enigma” was his code decryption machine, that broke the German encryption to be able to intercept their radio transmission. Some people argue that is the single greatest achievement during world War 2. Imagine playing Warship but knowing exactly how the enemy has placed his warships.
He also made a few very important mathematical works. One of the most important is the “Turing machine”. Essentially, it mathematically shows how any imaginable calculation can be done by Turing machine by having the right input. This was important for the development of the computer, even a modern one. It is essentially a simplified model of a computer, developed decades before the modern compute.
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