How Alan Turing Proved There's No 'Theory Of Everything' For Math

The World Science Festival partnered with the Museum of the Moving Image to present a special screening of The Imitation Game, the new dramatic feature film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician racing to crack the Enigma code during World War II. But Turing's mathematical genius wasn't just limited to cryptography—as physicist Janna Levin explains in this excerpt from a discussion after the film. Original Program Date: November 19, 2014 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest