Alan Turing: A Brilliant Unknown
by Manuel Barea
When our Director Mado Martínez posted on social networking site Facebook of feeling addicted to the iPhone, I told her of the hypothesis that the Apple logo was a tribute to the British mathematician, Alan Turing. She was very surprised by the exciting story that accompanies his life and invited me to collaborate in this edition of Ispectrum Magazine. In this article, I will try to get the
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most important aspects of his life, his work and clarify if possible the legend of the Apple logo. We have all studied in our childhood how Isaac Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation, stoked by an apple falling down from a tree. However, history has overlooked a second apple that changed the world of science…