Tuesday February 12 @ 7 pm

Janna Levin bridges fiction and nonfiction to tell a strange story of mathematical truth and lies. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a story of greatness and weakness, of genius and hallucination, based on the parallel lives of logician Kurt Gödel and code-breaker Alan Turing. Their work proved that truth is elusive, that knowledge has limits, that machines can think. Yet Gödel believed in transmigration of the soul and Turing concluded that we were soulless biological machines. Though both devoted to truth of the highest abstract nature, they were unable to grasp the mundane truths of their own lives.

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