Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix
@mks @Sheril and then the Germans made it harder.
Might help to learn a bit before you go round patronizing people who know more than you. Especially if it's for no other reason than to steal credit from Turing to falsely assign it to Poles who were stumped.
Turing called it the Bombe in credit to the Polish work.
You need to understand that there was not a single "Enigma code" that could be cracked as one and done. It is a family of ciphers.
One again, slowly, for the hard of thinking.
Everybody knows that the Polish came up with the mathematical model of the Enigma machine and cracked some of the first enigma codes.
Nobody here is trying to take away credit for that. Turing didn't, I'm not and you... Well, actually you are. "just continued" my arse.
Then, in your DK bliss, telling others to "get their facts straight". .
Sheril Kirshenbaum
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