[Catalist] STEM Project? The WW2 ‘work’ and troubled Life of Alan Turing

[Roy Skinner]

If you are in England soon you might consider a trip to Isaac Newton’s school in Grantham, Lincs. My friend’s wife works at The Kings’ School and so I got to go inside and even met the principal. I think it was built in the 1500s and where Newton was judged as being not particularly clever! I got to see the main dining room which looks like the one at Hogwarts and when I stood on a table  to look at the window-sill, there was that famous man’s initials that he scoured out of the limestone. So he must have been a bit of a naughty boy!

Later we visited Newton’s farm-let where he was born – Woolsthorpe and sat under the famous apple tree  which now has a plaque tto commemorate when the queen visited. The old pound note actually had Newton’s image and an extract from Pricipia on the back.

Worth a visit.

Roy

 

From: Catalist [mailto:catalist-bounces at lists.stawa.net] On Behalf Of Michael McGarry
Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 8:23 AM
To: catalist at lists.stawa.net
Subject: [Catalist] STEM Project? The WW2 ‘work’ and troubled Life of Alan Turing

 

Greetings Science Colleagues,

I have watched the recent addition on NETFLIX of the film: ‘The Imitation Game”.

NETFLIX URL: https://www.netflix.com/au/title/70295172

WIKIPEDIA URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game

I found the portrayal by actor Benedict Cumberbatch of Alan Turing a very evocative experience, especially Turing’s school days at Sherborne School.

BBC URL 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z8bgr82

I found the treatment of Alan Turing by British society, including naval command and the Law and police of that time extremely sad.

BBC URL 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092

What “The Imitation Game” doesn’t tell a viewer?

WP URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-imitation-game-didnt-tell-you-about-alan-turings-greatest-triumph/2015/02/20/ffd210b6-b606-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html?utm_term=.001b3f9c3fdc

PBS URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/8-things-didnt-know-alan-turing/

IWM URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-alan-turing-cracked-the-enigma-code

Biographies of Alan Turing

Bio. 1: https://www.biography.com/people/alan-turing-9512017

Bio. 2: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Turing.html

Bio. 3: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/

Turing Machines

Stanford Plato URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/

CU URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/turing-machine/one.html

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRDvLACg5Q

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The Conversation URL: https://theconversation.com/alan-turings-legacy-is-even-bigger-than-we-realise-34735

Best Wishes,

Michael John McGarry



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