{"id":397,"date":"2021-10-05T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/?p=397"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:49:16","slug":"maths-week-our-mathematician-alan-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/10\/05\/maths-week-our-mathematician-alan-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths Week &#8211; Our Mathematician Alan Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Maths Week Scotland, we have been learning about Alan Turing a famous mathematician, best known for his role as a code-breaker in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the facts we discovered about him:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alan Turing was a British mathematician. During the Second World War, he worked as a codebreaker, cracking German codes created by Enigma machines. His work helped shorten the war by 2 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alan Turing was born on 23<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rd <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 1912. He had an older brother called John. Their father worked for the British civil service in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turing\u2019s parents wanted their sons to be raised in Britain so the boys stayed with family friends while their parents were in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1936, Turing created the idea of a special machine that could follow simple codes. He called this the Universal Machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These machines are now known as a Universal Turing Machine and they formed a lot of the ideas behind computing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turing died in 1952<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On 15th July 2019, the Bank of England announced that Alan Turing\u2019s image would be featured on the new \u00a350 note to celebrate his pioneering work with computers. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-398\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104242\/IMG_13221-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104242\/IMG_13221-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104242\/IMG_13221-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104242\/IMG_13221-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-399\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104308\/IMG_13231-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104308\/IMG_13231-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104308\/IMG_13231-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/10\/05104308\/IMG_13231-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our finished profiles have now been displayed on our maths week board and we hope that other classes in the school will learn more about him from reading our work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Maths Week Scotland, we have been learning about Alan Turing a famous mathematician, best known for his role as a code-breaker in World War II. Here are some of the facts we discovered about him: Alan Turing was a British mathematician. During the Second World War, he worked as a codebreaker, cracking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/10\/05\/maths-week-our-mathematician-alan-turing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maths Week &#8211; Our Mathematician Alan Turing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}