NYT does Turing (and the movie.)
Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened
So then: read Hodges' book/had mine a while, as it seems the plot has been Hollywoodicated {sigh}
Well, they couldn't do a documentary ... except maybe for grad students in Information Theory. Still, no one knows, really: How he (with brilliant cohorts) managed to tease from enough abstruse artifacts, the complete solving of Enigma and its 1021 [patchboard + rotors] possibilities (re. the Navy one, if the number is correct.)
(Took the Brits long enough ... ... to Send Regrets into the æther, but at least they did.)
I'll never comprehend how the local Powers--the ones aware of his seminal role in their not then speaking German--failed to call-off their Inspector Javert clone.
Guess it's our duty to bug Peter about the amount of Brit nastiness in migrants, as may have catalyzed the peculiar form of traditional Murican nastiness (?)
Movie ought ought to inspire some budding young math freaks--or scare them away--when they realize that his feat transcended mere applied-math.
What he might have done next ... one sadistic cop .. what a Waste.
The museum was also tapping into interest in Alan Turing: the brilliant mathematician, master code breaker and irascible, persecuted genius of “The Imitation Game.” Turing and Bletchley Park have inspired another feature film (“Enigma”), a play (“Breaking the Code”), television series (“Codebreakers,” “The Bletchley Circle”) and a growing library of books, most notably the extraordinary 1983 biography by Andrew Hodges, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” (which provides very loose inspiration for the new movie).
Recently, interest in Turing has grown, spurred by recognition of his work, but also of his life: He was shamefully prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952 (and two years later committed suicide, an inquest concluded). Bletchley Park displays a signed copy of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s 2009 government apology. (Turing received a posthumous royal pardon in 2013.)
So then: read Hodges' book/had mine a while, as it seems the plot has been Hollywoodicated {sigh}
Well, they couldn't do a documentary ... except maybe for grad students in Information Theory. Still, no one knows, really: How he (with brilliant cohorts) managed to tease from enough abstruse artifacts, the complete solving of Enigma and its 1021 [patchboard + rotors] possibilities (re. the Navy one, if the number is correct.)
(Took the Brits long enough ... ... to Send Regrets into the æther, but at least they did.)
I'll never comprehend how the local Powers--the ones aware of his seminal role in their not then speaking German--failed to call-off their Inspector Javert clone.
Guess it's our duty to bug Peter about the amount of Brit nastiness in migrants, as may have catalyzed the peculiar form of traditional Murican nastiness (?)
Movie ought ought to inspire some budding young math freaks--or scare them away--when they realize that his feat transcended mere applied-math.
What he might have done next ... one sadistic cop .. what a Waste.
