Brain Pickings , Maria Popova's clever and captivating blog, shares a story called Alan Turing's Reading List: What the Computing Pioneer Borrowed From His School Library . Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer science pioneer who created the Turing machine, which was instrumental in the development of modern computer science. It seems that a list of the books that Turing checked out during his years at Sherborne School in England was discovered recently. Popova notes that "the selection features some wonderful wildcards that bespeak the cross-disciplinary curiosity fundamental to true innovation," and goes on to highlight 5 of her favorites on the list. These...      Read more...