He was also gay at a time when being gay was illegal.Īlan Turning was born on 23rd June 1912 in London and was left to live with family friends at the age of one when his mother and father moved to India for work. Turing was a mathematician, seen as the founding father of computers with his invention of ‘Turing Machines’. Alan Mathison Turing’s life was one filled with genius, innovation and secrets, all of which culminated in an untimely and tragic death.
