The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. These judgments are often but by no means invariably correct…
— Alan Turing Modern

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On mathematical intuition and ingenuity, discussed in his 1939 doctoral thesis.

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c. 1939

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