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Alan Turing £50 banknote enters circulation The new £50 note featuring Alan Turing has entered circulation (Joe Giddens/PA) The Alan Turing £50 banknote has started to enter circulation, coinciding with the Bletchley Park codebreaker’s birthday. The new polymer Bank of England note will become available in bank branches and at ATMs in the coming days and weeks. Celebrating Mr Turing’s life, the Bank of England was also flying the Progress Pride flag above its building in London’s Threadneedle Street on Wednesday. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey with the new £50 note, featurin...

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Alan Turing as a young boy. (Photo by Getty Images) 23 June 1912 Born Alan Mathison Turing in Maida Vale, London, the second son of Julius and Sara Turing October 1931 Turing takes up a mathematics scholarship at King’s College Cambridge, earning a first-class degree. In 1935 he is elected to a junior research fellowship January 1937 A paper by Turing is published that is later recognised as laying the foundation of computer science June 1938 At the age of 25, Turing receives his PhD from Princeton for his dissertation Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals 4 September 1939 Turing arrives...

Cantor's Paradise “Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants” Share If you enjoy this newsletter, please consider supporting future issues by signing up for a paid subscription at $5 per month, which also gives you access to all previous issues. Thanks! It is indeed supremely difficult to effectively refute the claim that John von Neumann is likely the most intelligent person who has ever lived. By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the Hungarian polymath had not only revolutionized several subfields of mathematics and physics but also...

Instructor:  Teaching Fellow: Gal Koplewitz, galkop@gmail.com. Office hours: Thursdays 3-4, Maxwell Dworkin second floor lounge. This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. It is meant to be a synthesizing experience for advanced students in computer science: a way for them to see the field as a whole, not through a survey, but by reliving the experience of its creation. The idea is to create a unified view of the field of computer science, for students who already know something about it, by replaying its entire evolution at an ac...