I mean, the very next sentence says it's a great story but it couldn't be more wrong. The author is recounting the popular telling of the story. Later in the piece, he acknowledges what you said:
I mean, the very next sentence says it's a great story but it couldn't be more wrong. The author is recounting the popular telling of the story. Later in the piece, he acknowledges what you said:
In a lecture series in the 1930s, Newman had wondered if intractable maths problems could one day be automated away. He didn’t specify how this would be done, but one of his students – Turing – did, in what is now one of the most famous academic papers ever written, On Computable Numbers. This is the actual reason Turing is “the father of computing”.
"the world's first computer" is also a bit hazy. The "bombes" sent to the UK from Poland were Enigma breakers somewhere between very complex calculators and computers, and after Colossus the US...
"the world's first computer" is also a bit hazy. The "bombes" sent to the UK from Poland were Enigma breakers somewhere between very complex calculators and computers, and after Colossus the US produced ENIAC, the world's first generally programmable (not specialised for cryptography) computer.
I mean, the very next sentence says it's a great story but it couldn't be more wrong. The author is recounting the popular telling of the story. Later in the piece, he acknowledges what you said:
"the world's first computer" is also a bit hazy. The "bombes" sent to the UK from Poland were Enigma breakers somewhere between very complex calculators and computers, and after Colossus the US produced ENIAC, the world's first generally programmable (not specialised for cryptography) computer.