Hi Enrico, > has a section "Prosecution for homosexuality and Turing's death", which > is quite a sad and upsetting story.
Yep, but typical for mathematicians: many bright mathematicians die early... its like, if you are 30, you cannot expect to make any great discoveries any more, but at least you survive... :-) For example Evariste Galois (apparently "straight", died at 20): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois Or Bernhard Riemann (died at 40): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann Or Ferdinand Eisenstein (died at 29) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Eisenstein Niels Abel (died at 27) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Henrik_Abel > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Byron > > is something you probably forgot to mention about early programmers ;) Yep, I'm currently reading "the difference engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Nice book, at least the chapters I have read. Interesting setting: what if the electronics didn't arrive, but we used steam engines much more? Computers are called "engines" there, and Ada Byron is "Lady Ada Byron, the Queen of Engines" I'm not sure where the story will lead to... but I can't wait to continue reading, although I already sleep way to little and have too much work to do. Greetings, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
