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,題為《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,卻不知道該怎麼説。
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。