2010/06/23

Stephen Wolfram on Alan Turing

Here's a part of the "suicide" story with which I was not familiar.

Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Happy Birthday, Alan Turing:

"When one first hears that Alan Turing died by eating an apple impregnated with cyanide one assumes it must have been intentional suicide. But when one later discovers that he was quite a tinkerer, had recently made cyanide for the purpose of electroplating spoons, kept chemicals alongside his food, and was rather a messy individual, the picture becomes a lot less clear."

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