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A HUNDRED years after his birth, Alan Turing’s legacy comes in myriad guises. Last weekend, the UK city of Manchester dedicated its annual gay pride parade to the gay British mathematician and codebreaker. Researchers in Japan, meanwhile, have recreated one of the scientist’s most famous ideas – the universal Turing machine – inside an obscure mathematical universe.
“Japanese researchers decided to build a Turing machine in a messed-up mathematical universe”
Thanks to Turing, Mancunians were treated to an exhibit on the mathematics of sunflowers…
