The UK/BBC voting public’s votes are in and Alan Turing has been voted the greatest person of the 20th Century,
which is rather wonderful,
and not much else to say
So now how about the £50 note!
Wednesday 6th February 2019
Alan Turing is the ‘Greatest Icon of the 20th Century’
By Vic Grout
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Turing's Radiator 
March 1st, 2019 at 12:01 pm
[…] or false and it doesn’t really matter. ‘Mathematics is incomplete‘. In 1936, Alan Turing proved that there are problems that can’t be computed/solved and the rest of the computer […]