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'Top Trumps' Style Mathematicians with QR code

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This mural integrates current mathematical technology and let's you find out more about these famous mathematicians. A tessellating pattern of Rhombus' triangles and Hexagons roams up the wall on the right...

Alan Turing

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The portrait of Alan Turing - as part of the Famous Mathematicians Mural at Sackville School. Alan Turing A successful Computer Scientist and Cryptanalyst during the war, Turing was instrumental in breaking the German encryptions while working for the British Foreign office. He also devised the ‘Delilah machine’ which could securely encode voice messages. [36] FACT: Turing also wrote papers on Artificial Intelligence and developed the Turing test which is used to evaluate a computers ‘intelligence’ even to this day.