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Although I agree with you that Turing's death was an incredible loss, I wouldn't be so sure he would have died a natural death. Turing had considered suicide b
by caryme 16y ago
Although I agree with you that Turing's death was an incredible loss, I wouldn't be so sure he would have died a natural death.
Turing had considered suicide before, during his failed work on the Riemann hypothesis. At that time, he schemed up a suicide mechanism involving an apple and electrical wiring which he described in a letter to an old boyfriend.
Turing was pretty eccentric, romanticized suicide (and was a little obsessed with this apple idea), and was in and out of depression.
Mind you, I agree. I'm just not so sure Turing ever would have died naturally.
- rjurney 16y agoHe uh... also tried to poison his PhD advisor.
- bdr 16y agoYou aren't thinking of Oppenheimer?
- rjurney 16y agoWhoops, you're right :/
- madair 16y agoHopefully someone will fix this misinformation soon, and gaddammit dude, when you're going to accuse someone of attempted murder, do a little fact check and send along a reference link or something for crissakkes
- rjurney 16y agoWhoops, you're right. I mixed him up with Oppenheimer.