From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 18:38:59 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Alan Turing and his computable numbers
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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
>