He Showed His Talent In Very Young Age

Turing showed outstanding aptitude in math and science from a young age. At the age of 6, his parents enrolled him in the day school St. Michael's. His headmistress and several of his subsequent teachers soon recognized his brilliance. He enrolled at Sherborne School in Dorset in 1926, when he was 14 years old. He was so determined to attend his first day at Sherborne that he rode his bike alone more than sixty miles from Southampton to the school during a transportation strike in England, stopping for the night at an inn and garnering national attention in the local press. He was capable of solving complex issues without having studied simple mathematics. The headquarter wrote to his parents: “His headmaster wrote to his parents: "I hope he will not fall between two schools. If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school."

Turing continued to excel in the subjects he enjoyed, answering complex questions in 1927 without having even learned basic calculus. When Turing first saw Albert Einstein's work in 1928, he was sixteen years old. Not only did he understand it, but he extrapolated Einstein's skepticism of Isaac Newton's laws of motion from a text in which this was never stated explicitly.