Little Legends
Storybook portrait of Alan Turing
United Kingdom

1912 – 1954

Alan Turing

A shy British mathematician who cracked secret codes and dreamed up computers.

The Story

Alan loved numbers and puzzles from the time he was a little boy.

When a big war came, secret messages were flying everywhere in code.

Alan built a clever machine to crack the code — and helped the war end sooner.

Then he asked a huge question: could a machine ever think?

His ideas grew into the computers and phones we all use today.

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