Chapter 640: Alan Matheson Turing

Being ungrateful to their great people is the mark of a strong nation.

Churchill's phrase is used by many nationalities.

For England and Alan Matheson Turing, the same applies.

However, what happened to Alan Matheson Turing, as well as Mr. Ye Qisun, Mr. Shu Xingbei, and countless 'wronged' great men, is more suitable for another sentence.

They shed their blood in war, but they could not move an inch in peace.

Without people like Mr. Ye Qisun who studied for the rise of China, the children and grandchildren of China would not be able to enjoy the peace they have now, let alone lie in a safe and comfortable room, using the wireless network, using a mobile phone, without worrying about their lives, just by tapping the keyboard, they can point to the country and judge those great people who created a peaceful environment for them.

They don't realize that everything they enjoy now is a future created by countless martyrs, and they don't realize that the future that those martyrs want to create should not be these people who are despicable as flies.

Alan Matheson Turing is called the 'grandfather' by all coders, computer and artificial intelligence practitioners, although his name is often mentioned by some topics that have nothing to do with profession or morality, but are related to personal privacy.

Just because he is a homosexual, everyone can only see his stigmatization, his contributions, and turn a blind eye.

Alan Matheson Turing was born into a gentleman's family in England, and his good education and talent made him unique from an early age, especially his love for mathematics.

At the age of fifteen, Turing wrote an executive summary of one of Einstein's works to help his mother understand the Theory of Relativity, showing that he already possessed an extraordinary level of mathematical proficiency and scientific understanding.

After that, he was out of control, won the most famous King's Shield Award at that time in middle school, and was recognized many times after his talent was officially discovered, and he was admitted to King's College Cambridge at the age of 19 for further study, and was one of the most famous students of King's College.

In 1936, Turing submitted a paper, in the appendix of the paper he described a machine that could assist mathematical research, later called the "Turing machine", the most awesome thing about this idea is that it established a connection between the symbolic logic of pure mathematics for the first time and the real world, and later the computer we are familiar with, as well as the "artificial intelligence" that has not yet been realized, are based on this idea. This is the first major paper in his life, and it is also his famous work.

It is also an important theoretical paper in the history of human civilization, because he proposed the concept of computers and the blueprint of future artificial intelligence.

Just as he was about to devote himself to scientific research, World War II, which affected the world, broke out, and Turing and other high-end talents were all officially arranged to the military department to conduct military research, mainly to decipher enemy codes.

Due to the need for decipherment work, he participated in the development of the world's first electronic computer.

In the work of deciphering, Turing used his wisdom and emotional intelligence to obtain the code of the German Engema machine by inducing and imitating the enemy's password, but even if the decipherment was successful, it still could not directly change the situation of the war at that time, because deciphering the code was a nirvana, which should be used at the most critical time to give the enemy the final blow.

Therefore, even if they knew where the enemy was going to attack and how to attack, Turing and the coalition still had to pretend not to know, because if the local government detected and the password was changed, then the previous efforts would be in vain.

But war is a huge slaughtering machine, every minute lives will be lost in this world, with Turing and others who can save lives, but can not do anything, at that time suffered greater mental torture than ordinary soldiers.

England retreated from Dunkirk to Normandy during World War II and did not make much contribution, the only two biggest contributions were the annihilation of the German Bismarck at sea and the annihilation of the German tank forces, but behind these two important battles, it was because Turing and other scientists deciphered the German code and mastered the intelligence.

Moreover, at that time, because England was located on an island, supplies mainly relied on sea transportation, and German submarines at that time developed U-shaped tactics, mainly to attack these supply ships, so that the supplies of the British Isles were once in a state of scarcity or even tension, which was very dangerous.

After Turing and other teams deciphered the code, the German submarine attack no longer worked, and the loss of English merchant ships declined, and indirectly, the contribution of Turing's team during World War II was higher than that of many generals, because they ensured that the English people would not starve to death.

Modern warfare is not what ordinary people imagine, it is closely related to the fighting of soldiers and the planning of generals, and more of the contributions of these great behind-the-scenes scientific researchers, but the exploits of these behind-the-scenes heroes are not known many years later.

At that time, the generation of Western chivalry and heroism did not have any intuitive concept of war, and all young people were ignited by war and rushed to the front line of war, while those who did not want to go to the battlefield were regarded as cowards.

Turing signed a confidentiality agreement because of his cooperation with the government at that time, and he could not reveal his identity, so many young people of his age who had not even been on the battlefield after the war went to ridicule Turing and others, ridiculing him as a coward.

One of Turing's co-workers received a letter of reprimand from his teacher after the war, causing his colleague to become so emotional that he almost committed suicide.

Little did these people know that the scholars and scientists in Bletchlett Park, north of London, had won the victory.

According to statistics, the information he deciphered saved 14 million lives in World War II and ended the war two years early.

Because after the end of World War II and during the Cold War, in order to prevent Soviet Russia from knowing that they had deciphered the German code, all the drawings and machines made by Turing and other teams were destroyed without a trace, and their contributions were sealed in the highest archives of the empire.

Even Turing did not get the goodwill of this country, and was forced to die by this group of arrogant and ignorant philistines.

Homosexuality, this view of love, before the fifties of the last century, was a fundamentally unacceptable existence in the West, where Christianity was deeply rooted, as if it were an alien.