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No offence, but Alan Turing didn't kick the Nazis' collective ass for you to run around saying that you're too gay to learn mathematics.
Have you thanked Alan Turing (1912 - 1954), atheist and homossexual, the father of modern computer science, today?
Reblog if you have thanked Alan Turing today
On this day in 1954, the British mathematician and scientist Alan Turing died. Turing is considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence with his invention of the ‘Turing machine’ - a precursor to the modern computer. He was also a crucial part of England’s code breaking team at Bletchley Park during World War Two, developing ways to interpret German messages from the Enigma machine. The work of Turing and his fellow code breakers was a great boost to the Allied war effort, supposedly shortening the war by as many as two to four years. However, in 1952 he was arrested for homosexuality - which was still illegal in Britain - and accepted chemical castration rather than prison. Turing suffered side effects from the treatment and two years later died from cyanide poisoning, supposedly from an apple found by his bed. Whilst some claim it was accidental, an inquest determined Turing had committed suicide due to the persecution he suffered. In 2009, following a popular online petition, Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a posthumous apology to Alan Turing.
“We’re sorry, you deserved so much better”
- Gordon Brown, 2009
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abominable-joeman asked:
I was put in the remedial math classes all throughout elementary to highschool. They wouldn’t let me move up when I obviously had the brains to do so. It was decided in the 5th grade that because I wasn’t good at math then, there’s no way I would ever be good at it.
Anonymous asked:
Hey! Astrophysics is actually 100% math. Physics is essentially applied math. Astronomy has a little less math with it but you’d have to know programming tho
Anonymous asked:
astro is 99% math like physics is just the application of math
like physics is something I have to study for and i’ve never had to study for anything in my life, not even like matrix theory or quantum. it’s gonna be hard and it comes down to whether or not you have the stamina to study for like 10+ hrs a week for it.
Anonymous asked:
cry on ur math book and ask satan 2 help u
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
The Alan Turing statue on my campus
wait fuck this is soooooo important always reblog
I will never NOT reblog
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Anonymous asked:
Aww ❤️❤️❤️❤️ that’s amazing congrats
Anonymous asked:
Nah he just wrote Euler’s identity on a pumpkin cause he’s a nerd. He’s a math major as well. We all are. Plus Euler’s identity is widely considered to be the most beautiful equation in mathematics, so its a popular go-to
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Absolutely
