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“but he was totally uninterested in poetry and not particularly sensitive to literature or any of the arts, and therefore not at all an easy person to supply with reading matter.”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result.”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
“Hilbert, who was always down-to-earth, liked to say: ‘One must always be able to say “tables, chairs, beer-mugs”, instead of “points, lines, planes”.”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
“The ‘real’ mathematics of the ‘real’ mathematicians, the mathematics of Fermat and Euler and Gauss and Abel and Riemann, is almost wholely ‘useless’ (and this is true of ‘applied’ as of ‘pure’ mathematics). It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the ‘utility’ of his work.… The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are, at present at any rate, almost as ‘useless’ as the theory of numbers. It”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
― Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
Antonio ’s 2025 Year in Books
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