What every programmer should know about Alan Turing

Enigma encryption-machine — Photo by Mauro Sbicego on Unsplash

Biography

Alan Turing (1912–1954) was a British mathematician, who was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science. Turing formalized the concepts of algorithm and computation by describing the so-called Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer…