Alan Turing comes alive

In a new play, Alan Turing turns to a colleague in a moment of epiphany. "Mathematics," he says triumphantly, "is a landscape riddled with holes and paradoxes. It is a chaos filled not with reasons and whys, but with contradictions and why nots."

The mathematician may never have uttered these exact words, but his character did in Friday's New York City workshop performance of Pure. The new play, by A. Rey Pamatmat, explores the mysterious parallels between Turing's work and his personal life, suggesting that the chaos Turing finds in mathematics is actually a reflection of his own complexities.

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