From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] Alan Turing and his computable numbers
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 18:38:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9097e4b-7ed9-3590-b88a-eb04e0eb9ba2@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805280827080.813@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 2018-05-27 6:34 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On this day in 1936, notable mathematician Alan Turing submitted his
> thesis "On Computable Numbers", thereby laying the foundations for
> today's computers.
>
> Sigh; if only he hadn't eaten that apple... And we'll never know
> whether it was murder or suicide.
What's the "murder" theory?
I thought the question was whether it was deliberate suicide or a lab
accident. Not that I'm a Turing expert...
--Toby
>
> -- Dave
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-27 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 22:34 Dave Horsfall
2018-05-27 22:38 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-05-27 23:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-27 23:54 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-05-28 8:13 ` Dave Horsfall
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