雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(98)
In April 1951 he had another look at the word problem for groups, and came up with a result which J.H.C. Whitehead at Oxford found 'sensational'—but it was never published.
1951年，圖靈從另一個角度，思考羣的詞問題，並得到了一個結果。牛津的懷特海認爲，這是一個轟動性的成果，但圖靈卻從未把它發表出去。
Max Newman kept him interested in topology, and he went to seminars.
紐曼繼續支持圖靈研究拓撲學，圖靈參加了一些這方面的研討會，
But the trend of postwar pure mathematics was moving away from his interests.
但是總得來說，他已經漸漸與純數學的發展脫節了。
Mathematics was flowering through a greater and greater abstraction for its own sake, while Caliban on his island remained somewhere in between the abstract and the physical.
數學在抽象海洋中一浪高過一浪，但這位半獸人，卻只想待在自己的小島上，他的小島，處在抽象和實體之間的某個地方。
Nor was he a keen conference-goer, loathing the academic chitchat, but he went to the British Mathematical Colloquia that Max Newman helped to get started.
他並不熱衷於參加會議，他很討厭學術圈裏那些扯淡的事情，但他還是參加了紐曼主辦的英國數學座談會。
In spring 1951 he went with Robin to one at Bristol, which got him interested in discussing topology with the mathematician Victor Guggenheim.
1951年春天，他和羅賓一起前往布里斯托，參加這個座談會，並在會上饒有興致地與數學家維克托·古根海姆討論了一些拓撲學。
But these were only diversions.
但這只是他的一種消遣。
Another diversion was offered by the BBC, whose new highbrow Third Programme was offering a series of five talks on computers.
還有一種消遣方式，是由BBC提供的。BBC製作了一套關於計算機的訪談節目，一共五期，
One was by Alan, the others by Newman, Wilkes, Williams and Hartree.
這五期節目的嘉賓，分別是圖靈、紐曼、威爾克斯、威廉姆斯和哈特里。
Alan's went out on 15 May 1951 and was entitled 'Can Digital Computers Think?'.
圖靈的那期節目，在1951年5月15日播出，主題是《數字計算機能思考嗎？》，
Largely it ran over the ground of the universal machine and the imitation principle.
主要是關於他的通用機模型和模仿原則。
There were some references to the 'age-old controversy' of 'free will and determinism', which harked back twenty years with a mention of Eddington's views on the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, and back ten years with some suggestions on how to incorporate a 'free will' element in the machine.
圖靈提到了自由意識和決定論的古老論戰，提到了愛丁頓，提到了量子力學的不確定性，還提到了他自己對於機器的"自由意識"的想法。
