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“he talked excitedly of the future of automatic computers, and reassured them that mathematicians would not be put out of work. In”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“The ‘real’ mathematics of the ‘real’ mathematicians, the mathematics of Fermat and Euler and Gauss and Abel and Riemann, is almost wholely ‘useless’ (and this is true of ‘applied’ as of ‘pure’ mathematics). It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the ‘utility’ of his work.… The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are, at present at any rate, almost as ‘useless’ as the theory of numbers. It”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do. I”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game