1 January 1937.
Cambridge, England
Alan Turing sat hunched at his desk in the dimly lit room.
On the table before him lay several copies of his newly published paper.
"On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem."
He stared at the cover, almost not believing it existed.
The paper, his labor for over a year, was now public.
But the world had yet to grasp its meaning.
Alan took a slow sip of his tea.
A knock interrupted his thoughts.
"Come in," he called.
John Smithson, a young mathematics lecturer and close friend, stepped in, unwrapping his scarf.
"Happy New Year, Alan," he said cheerfully. "Thought I'd stop by. I see you've made this year memorable already."
Alan gestured to the stack of papers. "Memorable, maybe. But understandable? That remains to be seen."
John pulled up a chair. "I've been reading it all morning. Alan, you've got equations, symbols, machines made of logic... You have to explain this to me in plain English."
