Alan Turing was born in London on June 23, 1912, to Julius and Ethel Turing. Julius was a civil servant who worked in India for much of his career, but he and Ethel wanted to raise their children in Britain. Precocious and gifted as a child, 59.__1__, a prestigious boarding school in Dorset, when he turned thirteen. However, 60.__2__.<br/>After Sherborne, Alan moved on to university at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was allowed to shine as a mathematician. At just 22 years old, he presented a dissertation that proved the central limit theorem, 61.__3__, which work for normal statistics, can be applied to other types of problems. 62.__4__.<br/>63.__5__, as well as designing a universal machine—later called the Turing machine—which could perform any possible math problem, as long as the problem was presented as an algorithm.