Alan Turing - BBC Horizon Documentary

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - John Nash Jr was similarly arrested for sexual liaisons with men. Sometimes makes me wonder whether this is something about brilliant mathematicians. As an undergraduate, Nash once climbed into a friend's bed while the friend was sleeping and "made a pass at him.". Nash also made a sexual overture toward John Milnor, a fellow mathematician with whom Nash lived one summer while working for the RAND Corporation think tank in Santa Monica, Calif. "What Nash felt toward Milnor may have been something very close to love." Nash's first loves were one-sided infatuations with other men. He once kissed another friend, Donald Newman, on the mouth. According to Newman, "He tried fiddling around with me. I was driving my car when he came on to me." Nash also had "special friendships," in his own words, with two men. One of these was Nash's "first experience of mutual attraction," Nasar writes. Of the other, she writes that they were "friends—and then more than friends." In 1954, Nash was arrested for indecent exposure in a bathroom in Santa Monica, which cost him his position at RAND. (He told his bosses that he was "merely observing behavioral characteristics."). Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Great documentary. Thank you for sharing some information about the Father of Modern Computers. It is sad that he was treated the way he was after World War II, and it wasn't until after he died that he was recognized for what he did.