Just finishing this fine book
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
by Janna Levin - lovely description of
Vienna coffee houses and mad math circle with Goedel
and also nicely captures early turing existence in Sherborne
school and in Cambridge pre-war, lying in Shepp's Green
thinking of unravelling a chess board into a tape,
and thence into a store and fsms and all the rest
bonkers...
2 comments:
Wow - you mean Turing was the John the Baptist of Pastafarianism?!
we can discuss this in the Jeremy Bentham pub tomorrow over a pint of warm ale or cold lager...you wit you:)
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