![]() ![]() He developed the idea of the Turing machine, a machine that ran programmes instead of a machine to do one task like multiplication or division. “A paper he wrote in 1936 is one of the key single greatest papers that you could look at because it provided a conceptual basis for computers,” he says. For example, his ideas in pure mathematics led to the development of modern computers. “He was gay.”īeyond the movie, Alan Turing’s “ideas are still being felt today,” says Downey. “That happened for a short period of time,” says Downey. The love story between Turing and Joan Clarke in the movie was “irrelevant”, according to Downey. “He was slightly unusual I guess because he was extremely smart,” says Downey. “They did not test the apple for cyanide, and there’s no way that that coroner's finding would be allowed today.”Īccording to Downey, Turing was not an “uber nerd” as depicted in the movie, but was actually quite good at interacting with people. “He could easily have died by simple inhalation of cyanide that he was using for experiments in chemicals,” says Downey. It’s also not clear that Turing committed suicide. “In those days he was still heading over the continent, to seek out - as he put it in one letter - luscious young men,” he says. “So that was another flaw in the movie had him being supposedly so terribly affected by the drugs that he could not do anything, that’s not true.” He died nine months after his treatment finished. ![]() Turing was also “doing wonderful work right up until the end,” says Downey. The policeman at the end of the movie is also completely fictitious according to Downey. The British would solve things for a while but then the Germans would change things. ![]() “There was a constant battle between the people who were doing the encoding, the Germans, and the people who were trying to decode, the British, and these things changed everyday,” says Downey. The movie also indicated that there was one sudden breakthrough and then everything was solved. ![]()
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