Flash Fiction

4 Pieces

A Catch

Gödel - Turing - Nash; an infinite play.

Am I Dead?

“Am I alive?” Asked Schrödinger’s cat.

Enwimpershuttle.

Entscheidungsproblem. Church on Turing’s grave ascends.

Purple Wall Paper

“Purple wallpaper gotta him,” said Det. Nimitz.

Explanations:

A Catch: Three mathematicians in the field of infinity.

Am I Dead: The problem of the alive and dead superposition of a cat.

Enwimpershuttle: The two men who found that the problem of halting can not be 100% reliable counted.

Purple Wall Paper: A pun on Oscar Wilde’s Last Words and The “Purple” Code of Japan.