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> I think for Zuse this is the debate about whether he had read Turing or not In his own words: I started in 1934, working independently and without knowl
by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
> I think for Zuse this is the debate about whether he had read Turing or not
In his own words:
I started in 1934, working independently and without knowledge of other developments going on around me. In fact, I hadn't even heard of Charles Babbage when I embarked on my work.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zuse/ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zuse/
- sho_hn 2y agoYep, I know. There's another interesting tidbit: John von Neumann lived in Berlin 1926-1929 and was a lecturer at Zuse's university. Contact has not been reported, and Zuse was at highschool for most of that time, but they may have crossed paths, or at least there may have been indirect intellectual influence via the surroundings Zuse studied in subsequently. It's stunning (and sad) sometimes just how much of the modern world was about to reveal itself in the academic communities of Berlin of the 20s and 30s before facism tore it asunder.