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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Alan Turing biography
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Date: Sun, 27-May-84 11:45:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 27 11:45:11 1984
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Well, i do agree with you that our school system should put more emphasis
on personalitites of "great" people, but it doesn't and we don't really learn
about them except in liberal arts classes, or if we're lucky in other classes
if the prof has a liberal arts outloook on the topic.
I also agree that from what I heard Turing seemed to have been greatly discrimi-
nated against in his life because of his homosexuality.  From what I have heard,
this was partly due to his foolishness in not realising that even though he was
a genius, society was still not ready to accept homosexuality openly (similarly
for Oscar Wilde).

I just didn't think that the fact that his homosexuality was not mentioned in
class was not overt homophobia, but simply lack of interest from the prof into
dwelling into the personalities of people behind theorems unless it was clear
that certain facets of their personalities had something to do with their genius.
Well, this all looks interesting;  I think i might read his biography.


Sophie Quigley
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