Alan Turing's Accomplishments

Many scientists and mathematicians have been overlooked for long even though they may have had many accomplishments. Many of them have made multiple accomplishments as for others as little as one. Many of them who have made one or more accomplishments, had an achievement that affected the world’s outcome. One of these scientists and mathematicians is Alan Turing, a mathematician, cryptologist, and early computer scientist. Similar to many other scientists and or mathematicians, he underwent many obstacles, many arguments, and many unsatisfied people. Although Alan Turing was greatly overlooked in the middle of the twentieth century, his design of his machine called the Bombe helped him become an influential figure in computer science by helping

Enigma machines were built to make coding and decoding messages easier. As explained by Andrew Hodges, a mathematician and author, “The basic principle of using an Enigma machine was that its rotors and rings and plug board would be set up in some particular way, and then the message would be encrypted, the rotors automatically stepping round as this was done,” (171). So after the initial state of the machine was decided normal by the cipher clerk, the message would be typed on a message going out into a “26 letter keyboard,” stated by William Jacobs a writer and producer, encrypting it causing the rotors to move as he typed the message (1). During this part of the process the machine encodes the message by replacing the words with random groupings of letters. An electrical signal is sent through a maze of wires and every time a key is pressed the rotating wheels turned lighting up a specific bulb showing an encrypted letter. Upon receiving the code, the decipher would need to know the machine’s initial state to be able to use the message he received in any means of communication. He would then take the encrypted code and decipher it using an Enigma Machine. Although it seemed to be a very simple process Carol Marshall, Computer Science Manager states, “… the Germans refined and improve their encryption tool so that it was used constantly throughout the war,”

It gave a lot of knowledge of when and where the Germen troops will be. Having the idea on where Germany would be also allowed the allies to transport goods such as food and weapons from one another in a safer manner reducing the amount of goods getting destroyed. Not only did it give us an extensive amount of information about the German’s intentions, as Professor Jack Copeland proclaims, Turing’s machine helped cracked “84,000 messages” passed by the German naval troops each month averaging about “two messages per a minutes,” (2). With the amount of messages passed between the Germans and the amount decoded, it greatly helped figure out what the Germans were planning on doing. With both the knowledge and speed allowed the war to be cut about “two years saving fourteen million lives” averaging seven million per a year as explained by Morten Tyldum, the film director of The Imitation Game (1). We as America, probably would not even have the free country we now know as America. There probably would not be the amount of freedom and or diversity of the human race and religion in the United States as there are now especially with Hitler being the ruler during WWII. Although throughout his life he was overlooked and viewed poorly, breaking the Enigma Code has not only benefited the world physically, but also in thought. Years after his death, according to Bio.com, he had “been recognized