Building the Turing machine is quite amazing.
When watching these type of movies I always wonder where these people would rank compared to other geniuses, i.e. Einstein, Hawking, Socrates, Galilei, da Vinci, Newton....and others
on this list Turing is only #42
http://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-minds-of-all-time/walter-graves
I call that list bs on account of # 40.
shareShould be in the top 5.
Entropy ain't what it used to be.
Even more bs....he is not a historical figure. The first gospel was written what...100 years after his death...there is no proof he ever existed, so sorry he doesn't belong on this type list.
shareYour bigotry is showing.
shareIf reason is what you consider bigotry then you're right. I never claimed to be an antheist its just theres a difference between faith and history.
shareThere's just as much historical reference as many other ancient figures. The faith part is if you consider him divine or not.
shareLook...I'm wearing a crucifix around my neck as I type but this is not the place for a religious figure to be placed. There is not even an at the time record of Jesus being crucified by the Romans and the Romans recorded everything. The first gospel was written down almost a century after his death. These are the facts as it is known by historians today. Is it possible we have all been lied to? I believe the answer is yes but the truth of the matter is historically you can not place Jesus on this type of list. Give me your historical proof and prove me wrong.
shareBesides, doesn't it seem a little unfair to mankind to include Jesus a divine being amongst mortal men?
shareThe only bigotry here is one of a person believing in imaginary friends being ranked as a genius.
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The spirit of abysmal despair
If jeebus made the list, where is Dr. Octopus?
shareMy Dad actually worked with him for a few days to understand and patent elements of the Manchester computer in the late 1940's.
He did have help in building his machines - most notably from Tommy Flowers who actually designed the Colossus - which isn't even mention in the film.
His biggest contribution perhaps - apart from his code breaking skills - was thinking up the concept of the machine that could be programmed to do anything - the Universal machine.
The film itself is almost complete fiction leaving out important facts and manipulating what actually happened into a simple crowd pleasing set pieces - most of which didn't take place.
Certainly in the top 5.
Without him i wouldnt be able to type this message.
He changed the world.
He would have been amazed in what it turned into today.
He would certainly have been delighted about progress in computing and I would hope that he would have been aware of the Whirlwind computer in the US which was the first to offer real time analysis of incoming threats and also had light pens linked to early computer CRT displays so didn't rely on punched tape for output.
There were other computer scientists around and indeed a distance relative of George Bush actually though up the concept of desktop computing back in the 1940's - but Turing's initial thought experiments where he came up with the idea of a universal machine was an enormous intellectual leap.
I'm not sure how the history of computers would have mapped out without Turing - but at the very least look up Konrad Zeus - he developed the Turing Complete Z3 computer in 1941.
Wiki will give you plenty of details.
The best mind is an impossible thing to determine. Historically we really look at how influential someone was which is often more about motivation.
sharePreposterous list! I agree with Newton (maybe he should be first), but some of the other rankings are ludicrous!
Euclid at 76? Possibly the most influential mathematician of all time.
Alexander at 86?? The greatest ever military tactician, except perhaps for Genghiz Khan, who is completely missing!
Gutenberg's 32 is way too high!
In fact, philosophers, composers & artists, whilst geniuses in their own right, may never claim "greater" genius than the listed mathematicians, scientists & polymaths listed due to the limited nature, impact and influence of their (albeit prodigious) talent.
Jesus is there (41), but no Moses, no Mohamed, no Buddha. Any of the others could arguably be just as influential as JC. Then again, all of them could be guilty of propagating a myth. And, as some would claim, they were all myths themselves.
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