Alan Turing
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When I was studying maths in Manchester in the 80's, I don't he was ever mentioned, which is really very sad. Now there's statues, and they named the new math department building after him in 2007.
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wrote 25 days ago last edited by 89th
They forgot one missing accolade, Norm Macdonald's clip comes to mind.
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From my point of view, his most important contribution is that he was the first (together with Alonzo Church) to define what computability means. The hard boundaries on what we can and cannot compute.
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I thought that was the robot in lost in space
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When I was studying maths in Manchester in the 80's, I don't he was ever mentioned, which is really very sad. Now there's statues, and they named the new math department building after him in 2007.
wrote 24 days ago last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Alan Turing:
When I was studying maths …
And just how many maths did you study?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Alan Turing:
When I was studying maths …
And just how many maths did you study?
wrote 24 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in Alan Turing:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Alan Turing:
When I was studying maths …
And just how many maths did you study?
Quite a lot - I studied polymaths.
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I studied one math, I did it quite well, and then I moved on.
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@jon-nyc said in Alan Turing:
I studied one math, I did it quite well, and then I moved on.
See, that's your American math. English maths is much more complete.
Similarly, I believe you colonial chaps take meth, whereas a British derelict will drink meths.