Thesis Statement
Alan Turing contributed to fighting Nazi Germany during World War II by working to decrypt German naval communications. He constructed the Turing machine based off the Turing thesis statement, which was able to interpret the German Enigma and the decoded messages were delivered to the English military.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings." |
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A class photo picturing Alan at age 21.
Courtesy of Society and Science Photo Archive
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty that needs to be done" A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing it was human" |
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control."