And now for something completely different. I’ve had enough of blogging about the debt ceiling and US fiscal problems. Have some weekend math blogging. Earlier this year, as I was reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I got interested in mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who appears as a character in the book. I looked for a biography, decided I didn’t really want a biography, and settled instead on Charles Petzold’s
Cantor’s diagonal argument
Cantor’s diagonal argument
Cantor’s diagonal argument
And now for something completely different. I’ve had enough of blogging about the debt ceiling and US fiscal problems. Have some weekend math blogging. Earlier this year, as I was reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I got interested in mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who appears as a character in the book. I looked for a biography, decided I didn’t really want a biography, and settled instead on Charles Petzold’s