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It's rather sad that the only thing a trained journalist can find in 150 letters written by a hero of the first order is “I would not like the journey, and I de
by gerdesj 9y ago
It's rather sad that the only thing a trained journalist can find in 150 letters written by a hero of the first order is “I would not like the journey, and I detest America.” - a remark made once by him.
I'd like these letters to be analysed by people who could make some real sense of them and put them into a decent context. Finding a throwaway remark that many have made on the spur of the moment and headlining it is a bit crass.
- RodericDay 9y agoAs someone who thinks America gets wide wide berth for all the pain and suffering it inflicts upon the world, I'm kinda happy to find important historical figures were fellow travelers.
- burkaman 9y agoYou can analyze them if you want: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/4f6c3f0c-9a70-33c5-bd03-df331fb06146?terms=%22BBC%22 https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/4f6c3f0c-9a70... This article is written for a general audience, and there's probably not much else of general interest in them if they're mostly about academics.
- agumonkey 9y agothis is goddam wonderful, so much better than reading the usual praises around Turing; you get to see who he was talking to and the subject. Makes his passing even more sad.
- kdoherty 9y agoAll I could find on these archives were summaries of the letters, is there anywhere where we can view the actual documents that are archived (either scanned or OCR)? I admit, I had a hard time navigating that page, so I may have missed something obvious. Edit: My bad, after reading the Conditions Governing Use I found this: "Photocopies and photographic copies of material in the archive can be supplied for private study purposes only, depending on the condition of the documents." So it looks like these written summaries are all we can get?
- vixen99 9y agoTerrific - thank you!
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- bahjoite 9y ago"An exchange of letters relating to a teenage prodigy's contribution to linear algebra" [0] would have been a more interesting choice, especially if the article would include some research on Lionel March [1] and his "rebmun algebra". [0]: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-tur%2Fadd%2Ftur%2Fadd%2F103 https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-tur%2Fadd%2Ftur%2F... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_March https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_March