Talk:Cambridge Computing

That Wittgenstein and Turing would both lecture on the foundations of mathematics at the same time in the same place seems like one of the great coincidences of history. That in so doing they came into conflict and seemingly hardened their views may have been one of the great tragedies of history. What if their paths did not cross until later under conditions that would have forced them to explore the common grounds of their interests?

Topics to expand:
 * why Turing might have extended his stay in the USA and what he might have learned about the developing computing device industry in the States.
 * how Wittgenstein might have been able to come into contact with Turing during the war

Right now, I'm thinking that had Wittgenstein been left to develop his thinking about discrete and finite mathematics, he might have published something in the area of mathematics that would have been of interest to Turing. JWSchmidt 04:10, 16 Mar 2005 (GMT)