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Alan Turing

He Was Elected a Fellow of King's on The Strength of a Dissertation

1935
England

In 1935, at the age of 22, he was elected a fellow of King's on the strength of a dissertation in which he proved the central limit theorem. Unknown to the committee, the theorem had already been proven, in 1922, by Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg.


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