雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(19)
The list of names in Alan's letter in itself meant little except that he might attend their lectures and seminars.
Einstein would be seen occasionally in the corridors, but was almost incommunicado.
愛因斯坦偶爾會出現在走廊上，但幾乎不和別人交流。S. Lefschetz was a pioneer in topology, which was at the centre of Princeton mathematics, and indeed a principal growth point of modern mathematics,
S.萊夫謝茨是拓撲學的先驅，拓撲學是普林斯頓數學系的核心，也是現代數學的重要進展。
but Alan's personal contact with him was probably characterised by an occasion when Lefschetz questioned whether he would understand L.P. Eisenhart's lecture course on Riemannian geometry, a question Alan considered insulting.
但艾倫和萊夫謝茨的交往，僅僅是萊夫謝茨問他能否聽懂L.P.艾森哈特的黎曼幾何講座，而艾倫則認爲這個問題非常無禮。Courant and Weyl, with von Neumann, covered the whole mainstream of pure and applied mathematics, bringing something of Hilbert's Gttingen to life again on the western shore.
柯朗，懷爾和馮·諾伊曼，覆蓋了純數學和應用數學的主流，使希爾伯特在哥廷根的研究在西海岸重現生機。But of them it was probably only von Neumann who had contact with Alan, through shared interests in group theory.
但在他們之中，只有馮·諾伊曼和艾倫有交往，因爲他們都對羣論感興趣。I have seen Church two or three times and I get on with him very well.
我和丘奇見過兩三次，我們相處得很好。He seems quite pleased with my paper and thinks it will help him to carry out a programme of work he has in mind.
他很欣賞我的論文，覺得對他正在思考的一項研究有所幫助。I don't know how much I shall have to do with this programme of his, as I am developping the thing in a slightly different direction, and shall probably start writing a paper on it in a month or two. After that I may write a book.
我不知道我會按照他的計劃走多遠，我打算朝一個稍有不同的方向發展。也許在這一兩個月內，我會開始寫一篇論文，之後我可能會寫一本書。Whatever these plans were, they did not come to fruition; there was no paper which fell into this description, nor a book.
不知道他們的計劃是什麼，反正沒有取得成果。艾倫沒有留下符合這個說法的論文，也沒有書。
