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Alan Mathison Turing

Birthdate Who was Alan Turing?

- 23rd June, 1912,


Alan Turing was a mathematician,
Maida Vale in London. cryptographer, and a pioneer of
computer science.
Biography His work forms the basis of todays
programmable computers.
He created the Bombe machine that
In 1926 helps stop WW II.
He went on to Sherborne Turing is widely considered to be the
School. father of theoretical computer science
He met Christopher Morcom, and artificial intelligence.
his first love and inspirations

In 1930 In 1936
Christopher Morcom The Turing machine, a theoretical
passed away computing device, was invented.
Turing coped with his grief Turing studied mathematics and
by working harder on the cryptology at the Institute for
topics of Science and Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Mathematics that Jersey.
he had shared with
Morcom.
Alan Mathison Turing

During WORLD WAR II


Turing was in charge of Hut 8, a section at Bletchley Park (the
British World War II codebreaking station) tasked with solving
encoded German naval messages.

In 1939

He also designed the Bombe Machine in 1939, which is the


machine that helps decipher The Enigma machine that the
German used to send encrypted secret messages.

Homosexuality and conviction


He was convicted of Gross Indecency after the police learned of
his sexual relationship with a young Manchester man. ( In the
1950s, Homosexuality was illegal.)
Rather than go to prison, he accepted, for the period of a year,
injections of estrogen intended to neutralise his sexuality. The
treatment left him chemically castrated.

Death
7th of June, 1954
He committed suicide, the cause of death was
cyanide poisoning.
In 2013, 59 years after his death, he was given
a posthumous royal pardon.
Calculation

1. Message to encode: Pair means beautiful .


p r e s e t u
a - a - a i l -
i m n b u f .

C= 3 2 3 Inverse of C = 2 -4 -1
1 1 1 -1 8 0
1 0 2 -1 2 1

2. Translate the matrix letters into numbers using the encoding chart above
14 12 25 11 25 10 9 2
29 0 29 0 29 21 18 0
21 17 16 28 9 24 3 1

3. multiply each matrix by matrix C as given above


163 27 181 117 160 144 72 9
64 29 70 39 63 55 30 3
56 46 57 67 43 58 15 4

4. Reduce the number by using Mod 30 to get the numbers in the code range (0,29)
13 27 1 27 10 24 12 9
4 29 10 9 3 25 0 3
26 16 27 7 13 28 15 4

5. Message to decode: QZDCAN.TCCUWTQFEBAOUZ


-16 -78 -65 11 -5 -80 -9 2
-1 60 29 0 -1 51 -12 0
21 47 46 -2 9 54 3 1

6. Multiply each matrix by inverse matrix C as given above


-16 -78 -65 11 -5 -80 -9 2
-1 60 29 0 -1 51 -12 0
21 47 46 -2 9 54 3 1

7. Reduce the number by using mod 30 to get the numbers in the code range (0,29)
14 12 25 11 25 10 9 2
29 0 29 0 29 21 18 0
21 17 16 28 9 24 3 1

8. The decoded message is:

Pair means beautiful .

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