Alan Turing
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Alan Turing’s skills within mathematics and science have formed the basis for how we still assess probabilities and find solutions to this very day. He played an integral role in the history of science, as a creator of the modern computer, a mathematical genius and a wartime code-breaker. He received an official and well deserved public apology, from the British Prime Minister in 2009, for his appalling treatment by the British Government. Get inside his genial mind in this very personal life story from The Amazing People Club®.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Joseph Banks
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