双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第4章:彼岸新星(18)

The list of names in Alan's letter in itself meant little except that he might attend their lectures and seminars.

艾伦信中的名单仅仅意味着，他可以参加他们的讲座和研讨。

Einstein would be seen occasionally in the corridors, but was almost incommunicado.

爱因斯坦偶尔会出现在走廊上，但几乎不和别人交流。

S. Lefschetz was a pioneer in topology, which was at the centre of Princeton mathematics, and indeed a principal growth point of modern mathematics,

S.莱夫谢茨是拓扑学的先驱，拓扑学是普林斯顿数学系的核心，也是现代数学的重要进展。

but Alan's personal contact with him was probably characterised by an occasion when Lefschetz questioned whether he would understand L.P. Eisenhart's lecture course on Riemannian geometry, a question Alan considered insulting.

但艾伦和莱夫谢茨的交往，仅仅是莱夫谢茨问他能否听懂L.P.艾森哈特的黎曼几何讲座，而艾伦则认为这个问题非常无礼。

Courant and Weyl, with von Neumann, covered the whole mainstream of pure and applied mathematics, bringing something of Hilbert's Gttingen to life again on the western shore.

柯朗，怀尔和冯·诺伊曼，覆盖了纯数学和应用数学的主流，使希尔伯特在哥廷根的研究在西海岸重现生机。

But of them it was probably only von Neumann who had contact with Alan, through shared interests in group theory.

但在他们之中，只有冯·诺伊曼和艾伦有交往，因为他们都对群论感兴趣。

As for the logicians, Gdel had returned to Czechoslovakia.

至于逻辑学家，哥德尔已经回到捷克斯洛伐克了。

Kleene and Rosser had made more substantial contributions to logic than Alan's letter suggested, but had taken up positions elsewhere, and he would never meet either of them.

克林和罗瑟，已经做出了比艾伦说的更加重要的新发现，但他们也已经去了其它地方，艾伦见不到了。

The Swiss logician P. Bernays, a close associate of Hilbert, and another exile from Gttingen, had returned to Zürich.

同样来自哥廷根的瑞士逻辑学家P.博内斯，是希尔伯特的亲密伙伴，也已经回到了苏黎世。

Thus the impression that Alan had given to Mrs Morcom, of working with two or three major authorities, was incorrect.

因此艾伦对默卡夫人说的"和几个重要数学家一起工作"并没有完全实现。

It was a matter of working with Church alone, except inasmuch as there were graduates studying logic on a lower level.

和他一起研究逻辑学的，除了一些研究生之外，就只有丘奇了，

And Church was a retiring man himself, not given to a great deal of discussion.

而且丘奇是个快要退休的人，也不怎么参与研讨。

In short, Princeton did not cure Alan of being a 'confirmed solitary'. He wrote:

总之，普林斯顿无法医治艾伦的隐者之心，艾伦写道：