Computing With Quantum Cats (2014)
“But there was only one father: Alan Mathison Turing.
A CHILD OF EMPIRE Turing was conceived in India, where his father, Julius, was a member of the Indian Civil Service helping to administer this jewel in the crown of the British Empire; but he was born, on June 23, 1912, in Maida Vale, London, when his parents were on home leave. He already had a brother, John, born in India on September 1, 1908. When Julius returned to India their mother, Sara,1 stayed in England with the two boys, but on...ly until September 1913, when she rejoined her husband and left the children in the care of a retired army colonel and his wife, who lived at St. Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex. There was a nanny who looked after the two boys and the colonel's four daughters, together with another boy whose parents were overseas, and later three cousins of Alan and John. Their mother returned for the summer of 1915, staying with the boys in rented rooms in St. Leonards, and both parents came to England in the spring of 1916—the first time that Alan really had an opportunity to get to know his father.MoreLess
A CHILD OF EMPIRE Turing was conceived in India, where his father, Julius, was a member of the Indian Civil Service helping to administer this jewel in the crown of the British Empire; but he was born, on June 23, 1912, in Maida Vale, London, when his parents were on home leave. He already had a brother, John, born in India on September 1, 1908. When Julius returned to India their mother, Sara,1 stayed in England with the two boys, but on...ly until September 1913, when she rejoined her husband and left the children in the care of a retired army colonel and his wife, who lived at St. Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex. There was a nanny who looked after the two boys and the colonel's four daughters, together with another boy whose parents were overseas, and later three cousins of Alan and John. Their mother returned for the summer of 1915, staying with the boys in rented rooms in St. Leonards, and both parents came to England in the spring of 1916—the first time that Alan really had an opportunity to get to know his father.MoreLess
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