How much of our impression of mathematics as a creepy, mental-health-harming cult
Er, what? Who do you mean by “we”?
comes from pure stereotyping?
The link says of Turing:
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.
This is a staggeringly wrong account of how he died.
Hence my calling it “pure stereotyping”!
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Er, what? Who do you mean by “we”?
The link says of Turing:
This is a staggeringly wrong account of how he died.
Hence my calling it “pure stereotyping”!