Alan Turing’s letter to a schoolboy defining linear algebra
Posted by Ellee on Nov 27, 2015 in Blog | 0 comments Sorting through a box of papers recetly, “maths genius” Lionel March stumbled across a hidden treasure – a three page letter from Alan Turing written to him when he was a schoolboy. Lionel had created a new form of algebra which so impressed academics that it was sent to the code breaker at his computing laboratory at Manchester University. Turing wrote two letters to Lionel,...read more
