MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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The Auden Test (2016)
Lawrence Aronovitch
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A short play in which poet W.H. Auden delivers a speech in 1954 on the same day that he learns of the death of his friend, mathematician Alan Turing. Although they were contemporaries, I'm not aware of any evidence Auden and Turing actually knew each other outside of this work of fiction. But, it is interesting to speculate that the two gay British men might have been friends, and it gives the playwright the opportunity to compare and contrast what their respective works had to say about human creativity.

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