雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(28)

It was an ambitious choice of study, a book only published in 1932. It was the Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik, the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by the young Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann.

這是一個很有雄心的選擇，該書出版於1932年，題爲《量子力學的數學基礎》，作者是年輕的匈牙利數學家，約翰.馮.諾伊曼。

On 23 June it was his twentieth birthday, and then on 13 July what would have been Christopher's twenty-first.

6月23號是他的20歲生日，7月13號是克里斯朵夫21歲的生日。

Mrs Morcom sent Alan a 'Research' fountain pen, such as Christopher had shown off, as a present.

默卡夫人送給艾倫一支鋼筆，就是克里斯朵夫曾經炫耀的那支。

Alan wrote from Cambridge, where he spent the 'Long Vacation Term':

艾倫從劍橋寫信：

My dear Mrs Morcom,

親愛的默卡夫人：

I remembered Chris' birthday and would have written to you but for the fact that I found myself quite unable to express what I wanted to say.

我記得克里斯的生日，本來想寫信給你，卻不知道該怎麼說。

Yesterday should I suppose have been one of the happiest days of your life.

我想，昨天是你生命中最快樂的日子吧。

How very kind of you it was to think of sending me a 'Research' pen. I don't think anything else (of that kind) could remind me better of Chris; his scientific appreciation and dexterous manipulation of it.

你真的太好了，想到把那支鋼筆送給我，沒有什麼能比它更讓我想念克里斯了，想念他對科學的態度，還有他靈巧的雙手。