Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Alan Turing" in English language version.
In late 1940 Alan Turing wrote a report describing the methods he and his colleagues at Bletchley Park had used to break into the German Enigma cipher systems. At Bletchley it was known as 'the Prof's Book.' A copy of this handbook was at last released from secrecy by the American National Security Agency in April 1996, under the title Turing's Treatise on the Enigma. Subsequently, a much better original copy was released by the (British) National Archives, box HW 25/3. This also revealed a title which had been lost in the American copy: Mathematical theory of ENIGMA machine. (Though, oddly, the report does not actually have any mathematical theory.)
We have ... been recreating the narrative of Turing's life, and we have recreated him as an unhappy young man who committed suicide. But the evidence is not there.
Update 13 February 2015Official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years but added the caveat that this did not account for the use of the atomic bomb and other eventualities. Hinsley, Harry (1996) [1993], The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War, Keith Lockstone's home page, archived from the original on 15 October 2022, retrieved 26 August 2024 Transcript of a lecture given on Tuesday 19 October 1993 at Cambridge University
After his first love, Christopher Morcom, died of tuberculosis ...
This was first love, which Alan would himself come to regard as the first of many for others of his own sex.
... Turing's first platonic love, Christopher Morcom ...
"My lectures are going off rather well. There are 14 people coming to them at present. No doubt the attendance will drop off as the term advances."
Update 13 February 2015Official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years but added the caveat that this did not account for the use of the atomic bomb and other eventualities. Hinsley, Harry (1996) [1993], The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War, Keith Lockstone's home page, archived from the original on 15 October 2022, retrieved 26 August 2024 Transcript of a lecture given on Tuesday 19 October 1993 at Cambridge University
Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.
Update 13 February 2015Official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years but added the caveat that this did not account for the use of the atomic bomb and other eventualities. Hinsley, Harry (1996) [1993], The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War, Keith Lockstone's home page, archived from the original on 15 October 2022, retrieved 26 August 2024 Transcript of a lecture given on Tuesday 19 October 1993 at Cambridge University
Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.
Update 13 February 2015Official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years but added the caveat that this did not account for the use of the atomic bomb and other eventualities. Hinsley, Harry (1996) [1993], The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War, Keith Lockstone's home page, archived from the original on 15 October 2022, retrieved 26 August 2024 Transcript of a lecture given on Tuesday 19 October 1993 at Cambridge University
We have ... been recreating the narrative of Turing's life, and we have recreated him as an unhappy young man who committed suicide. But the evidence is not there.
After his first love, Christopher Morcom, died of tuberculosis ...
This was first love, which Alan would himself come to regard as the first of many for others of his own sex.
Update 13 February 2015Official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years but added the caveat that this did not account for the use of the atomic bomb and other eventualities. Hinsley, Harry (1996) [1993], The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War, Keith Lockstone's home page, archived from the original on 15 October 2022, retrieved 26 August 2024 Transcript of a lecture given on Tuesday 19 October 1993 at Cambridge University