Alan Turing: Great Minds
Hank introduces us to that great mathematical mind, Alan Turing, who, as an openly gay man in the early 20th century faced brutal prejudice that eventually led to his suicide, despite being...
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There's a man that we have to thank for things like a world free of Nazisand full of computers and we did not treat him particularly well as a society.Yes, I'm talking about Alan Turing. Turing was born in England in 1912 and as he madehis way through schoolhis teachers realized that he was not a normal brilliant kid,he was an ultra-mega-super math genius.He could do things like solve complicated calculus problems in his headbefore his teachers taught him calculus.But Turing differed from to the other boys in his fancy boarding schoolin another way: he was openly gay. And mind you thiswas in a place and time when homosexuality wasliterally illegal. But Turing's oppression didn't prevent him fromkicking math's ass during the 1930s....
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There's a man that we have to thank for things like a world free of Nazisand full of computers and we did not treat him particularly well as a society.Yes, I'm talking about Alan Turing. Turing was born in England in 1912 and as he madehis way through schoolhis teachers realized that he was not a normal brilliant kid,he was an ultra-mega-super math genius.He could do things like solve complicated calculus problems in his headbefore his teachers taught him calculus.But Turing differed from to the other boys in his fancy boarding schoolin another way: he was openly gay. And mind you thiswas in a place and time when homosexuality wasliterally illegal. But Turing's oppression didn't prevent him fromkicking math's ass during the 1930s....
