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More acurately he is the father of Computing Science and he developed the "turing machine" -- basically the simplest model of a machine necessary to compute anything that is computable. He also determined what is computable by a machine and what is not computable, e.g.the halting problem

This is the fucking WWW! You can't tell me what I can and can't link to! People who do that don't understand the way the web works. And if you think they'll prevail in court, THINK AGAIN!

You're thinking too small. Combine Gold + Silver + Iron = Element 152 (79+47+26 atoms) After doing so, you'll have the material that powers the Legion of Superheros' Flight Rings. http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/rollca ll/monel.htm And look at these built-in features! http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/transp ortation/air.htm Just think of the cash you'll rake in with an antigravity metal that is telepathically responsive. http://members.nbci.com/lightning_lad/Role_Playing /Legion_Technology/Flight_Rings/flight_rings.html One of the pieces of Legion equipment created by Invisible Kid, the flight rings are made out of Element 152, an anti-gravity metal created by Mon-El. Experimenting with the metal for months, Invisible Kid developed a flight ring with the following attributes: * Flight through the will power of the wearer. * Allows its wearer to link with other ring-wearers. This allows all those linked to travel at the speed of the fastest linked character. * Signaling device is activiated by twisting the L symbol clockwise a quarter turn. This activates the ring's SOS transmission and tracking beam. * Allows the wearer to hover even is he/she loses consciousness. * Communication is allowed via ring to other wearers. The wearer focuses his or her will through the ring to "send" a message to another person or persons. For more personal messages or ones that need to be kept from others, telepathic plugs must be used. Small wonder that Booster Gold made a fortune with his.

You're thinking too small. Combine Gold + Silver + Iron = Element 152 (79+47+26 atoms) After doing so, you'll have the material that powers the Legion of Superheros' Flight Rings. http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/rollca ll/monel.htm And look at these built-in features! http://plaza.v-wave.com/legion_headquarters/transp ortation/air.htm Just think of the cash you'll rake in with an antigravity metal that is telepathically responsive. http://members.nbci.com/lightning_lad/Role_Playing /Legion_Technology/Flight_Rings/flight_rings.html One of the pieces of Legion equipment created by Invisible Kid, the flight rings are made out of Element 152, an anti-gravity metal created by Mon-El. Experimenting with the metal for months, Invisible Kid developed a flight ring with the following attributes: * Flight through the will power of the wearer. * Allows its wearer to link with other ring-wearers. This allows all those linked to travel at the speed of the fastest linked character. * Signaling device is activiated by twisting the L symbol clockwise a quarter turn. This activates the ring's SOS transmission and tracking beam. * Allows the wearer to hover even is he/she loses consciousness. * Communication is allowed via ring to other wearers. The wearer focuses his or her will through the ring to "send" a message to another person or persons. For more personal messages or ones that need to be kept from others, telepathic plugs must be used. Small wonder that Booster Gold made a fortune with his.

Slightly OT, but the Zeta function, in addition to being of significance to primes is important to astronomy. That's because to derive the thermal emission from eg. a star as a function of Temperature you need to integrate the Planck Blackbody Function, which gives Zeta(4) = pi^4/90 The result is known as the Stephan-Boltzmann Law

I'd explain it myself, but this page does a pretty good job, and I'd hate to duplicate efforts. It's an important function in number theory, particularly concerning prime numbers.