雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(18)

The list of names in Alan's letter in itself meant little except that he might attend their lectures and seminars.

艾倫信中的名單僅僅意味着，他可以參加他們的講座和研討。

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。

As for the logicians, Gdel had returned to Czechoslovakia.

至於邏輯學家，哥德爾已經回到捷克斯洛伐克了。

Kleene and Rosser had made more substantial contributions to logic than Alan's letter suggested, but had taken up positions elsewhere, and he would never meet either of them.

克林和羅瑟，已經做出了比艾倫說的更加重要的新發現，但他們也已經去了其它地方，艾倫見不到了。

The Swiss logician P. Bernays, a close associate of Hilbert, and another exile from Gttingen, had returned to Zürich.

同樣來自哥廷根的瑞士邏輯學家P.博內斯，是希爾伯特的親密夥伴，也已經回到了蘇黎世。

Thus the impression that Alan had given to Mrs Morcom, of working with two or three major authorities, was incorrect.

因此艾倫對默卡夫人說的"和幾個重要數學家一起工作"並沒有完全實現。

It was a matter of working with Church alone, except inasmuch as there were graduates studying logic on a lower level.

和他一起研究邏輯學的，除了一些研究生之外，就只有丘奇了，

And Church was a retiring man himself, not given to a great deal of discussion.

而且丘奇是個快要退休的人，也不怎麼參與研討。

In short, Princeton did not cure Alan of being a 'confirmed solitary'. He wrote:

總之，普林斯頓無法醫治艾倫的隱者之心，艾倫寫道：