雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(105)
In January 1937 he was delighted when his friend David Champernowne defeated such runners-up as M.H.A. Newman and J.D. Bermal in giving a witty solution, phrased in Carrollian language, to a problem set by Eddington called 'Looking Glass Zoo'.
But Alan's comments on the Abdication, naive in idealism perhaps but certainly not ill-informed, indicate very clearly that his interest in the journal would not have been confined to this feature.
不過，艾倫關於退位事件的評論，雖然有些單純的理想主義，但卻分析得十分深入到位，這就充分說明，他對這本雜誌的興趣不只是解謎。Ulam writes further that 'von Neumann had great admiration for him and mentioned his name and "brilliant ideas" to me already, I belive, in early 1939.
烏拉姆還寫道：在1939年初，馮·諾伊曼就對他非常欽佩，對我提起他，以及他的傑出的想法……
... At any rate von Neumann mantioned to me Turings's name several times in 1939 in conversations, concerning mechanical ways to develop formal mathematical systems.'
在我們談論形式系統的機械方法時，馮·諾伊曼很多次提到圖靈。In what follows, code refers to any conventional system of communicating text, whether secret or not.
在下文中，編碼是指所有的文本通信系統，無論是否加密。Cipher is used for communications designed to be incomprehensible to third parties.
而密碼是指對第三方保密的通信系統。Cryptography is the art of writing in cipher; cryptanalysis that of deciphering what has been concealed in cipher.
密碼技術是指設計密碼的技術，密碼分析是指從密碼中解出隱藏的信息。Cryptology covers both the devising and breaking of ciphers.
密碼學則包括設計和破譯密碼。At the time, these distinctions were not made, and Alan Turing himself referred to cryptanalysis as 'cryptography'.
在當時，這些概念的區別還並不清楚，艾倫·圖靈經常會將密碼分析稱爲密碼技術。The British spying organisation, variously entitled SIS, M16.
英國間諜組織軍情六處，縮寫爲SIS，代號爲MI6。Apart from this top-level administrative overlap it was and remained essentially distinct from the cryptanalytic department.
除了在行政上的關係之外，它與密碼分析部門基本上是分開的。David Champernowne also discussed the principle of the chain reaction with Alan after reading an article about it by J.B.S. Haldane in the Daily Worker.
大衛·晨佩儂在讀過一篇J.B.S.霍爾登的論文之後，也與艾倫討論過鏈式反應的原理。that is, for looking at even more zeroes of the zeta-function.
就是計算ζ函數更多的零點Alan was wrong.
艾倫想錯了。
