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Background Alan Turing was an English computer scientist and cryptoanalyst born in the small London town of Maida Vale at the same time his father, Julious Turing was on leave. As a young child, Turing was collectively seen as having a high intellectual quotient by his peers as well as his teachers, who did not necessarily respect him because of this trait. Although Turing had a particularly curious mind from the start of his life, - and despite the fact that his early signs of genius were beginning to become prominently presented - his engagement and interest in the fields of mathematics and science only really took off at the age of 13, when he attended an independent British school called the "Shelbourne School." This proceeded the first educational institution he went to, Hazelhurst Preparatory School - an independent school in the territory of …show more content…

In fact, one of the key administrators in the school wrote "I hope he will not fall between two stools. If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school" to Turing's parents. Despite this, Turing continued to show a sense of persistence and a lack of giving up; Turing was determined to make a permanent mark on the history of computational analytics. Turing's early life was a story of proving his remarkable abilities in the disciplines of mathematics and science which he loved. Turing's excellence in mathematics was first demonstrated when he proved a complex problem in mathematics without knowing a shred of even the most elementary levels of calculus in 1927 (age 15). Later in 1928, Turing again demonstrated impressive scientific skills when he comprehended the studies and conclusions of Albert Einstein and even possibly deduced conclusions when they were not made

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