Fiction of thinking machine; Thinking machine.

The Thinking Machine is the work of American writer Jacques Futrelle. Starting from 1905, Jacques Futrelle has created more than 40 detective novels featuring Professor Van Dusen as a thinking machine in just seven years, most of which are unique.

I really don't want to put this double quotation mark if I don't stick to grammar, because he is a veritable "thinking machine".

Fortelle was born in a literary family in Georgia, USA on April 9, 1985. Fortell didn't go to college. /kloc-When she was 0/8 years old, she left school to work for Atlanta Daily. She briefly transferred to the Boston Post and then returned to the Atlanta Daily to write a sports column. This experience laid a solid foundation for his later creation.

1895 After her marriage, Fortelle moved to new york and worked as a foreign news editor for new york Pioneer. After a pair of children were born, they moved to Massachusetts and began their writing life. Thus, Van Dusen was born.

Professor Van Dusen's name is unforgettable. Fortelle seems to have put all the available letters after Van Dusen's name. So, when his full name is followed by Ph.D (doctor of philosophy), ll. D (Doctor of Law), F.R.S (Member of Royal Society), M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) and M.D.S. (Master of Dentistry) are really impressive.

His appearance is as unforgettable as his name. Another registered trademark of Professor Van Dusen is the No.8 hat he wears on his head. He is not tall, his shoulders are thin and drooping, and his smooth cheeks look pale most of the time. Due to frequent observation and reading, Van Dusen's eyes are always squinting, and a pair of thick glasses are always in front of these water-blue eyes. Van Dusen has an unusually high and wide forehead, and his head is covered with thick and unkempt yellow hair. To some extent, Van Dusen is a bit like Einstein.

Maverick is another sign of him (not surprisingly, genius has personality, especially reasoning genius). There will never be words like "hello", "sorry", "thank you" and "trouble" in your mouth, and you will never flatter anyone for any purpose. He never listens to others' opinions calmly. He always interrupts others rudely without saying hello. Van Dusen always says impatiently to customers, "All right! You just need to tell me the truth exactly, and don't add any opinions of your own. You know, nothing is impossible, so don't bother me with your own shallow views! " Even after the incident was resolved, Van Dusen did not forget to dig at others: "It's obvious, can't you use your head?" I always have to tell you! "Van Dusen is probably the most impolite detective, an out-and-out arrogant uncle Sam.

All Du Sen's eccentricities and rudeness can be tolerated, because his logical thinking ability can make up for it. So we saw his perfect performance in "Escape from Cell 13", and solved many puzzling puzzles: the parrot trick in "Where is the Million Dollar Hidden", the crow trick in the western Western jackdaw girls' school, the image trick in the crystal ball soothsayer, the smoke screen in the lost radium and so on.

As chess champion Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky said when he was defeated by Professor Van Dusen, "My God! You are not human! You are a brain! It is a machine! A thinking machine! "

Like all reasoning enthusiasts at that time, Jacques Futrelle was a disciple of Conan Doyle and had absolute admiration for Sherlock Holmes. The most fascinating thing about Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly his incredible logical thinking ability. The short stories in the golden age further absolutized and idealized the detective's thinking ability, which led to the emergence of countless clever detectives overnight. And this "thinking absoluteness" is the most remarkable feature of the golden age of short stories. Jacques Futrelle's mystery novels are the most extreme embodiment of this feature.

Van Dusen's reasoning method relying on absolute thinking ability is called "evidence-based reasoning"-this is a genre of mystery novels. Complement jazz's physical evidence reasoning. In a sense, he can be on a par with jazz and become another monument in the history of reasoning!

Professor Van Dusen firmly believes that fine logic and excellent action ability are the magic weapon for detectives to win. So he spared no effort to go deep into the case itself. This practical way of solving crimes is similar to Sherlock Holmes, so Professor Van Dusen, a thinking machine, is also called "Sherlock Holmes in America".

However, Fortelle, who advocates logic, did not find the experience in life so illogical. For example, Macbeth's book "Three Witches Playing Tricks" (in Tang Nuo):1965438+65438 In 2002+0, Jacques Futrelle came to Britain with his beloved wife to discuss the publication of his works with publishers. The talks went well, and Mr. and Mrs. Fautrier soon ended the negotiations. They planned to return to America by passenger ship, but unfortunately, that passenger ship was Titanic. Fortel, the myth of reasoning, was buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of throwing the diamonds left by Jacques Futrelle into the sea as a sacrifice, he rescued his wife who was traveling with him as in the movie. Instead, she presented the thinking machine to all our reasoning readers together with all his detective cases.

That day was1965438+April 12.

Fortel left, but she left a figure that once influenced us and will continue to influence us; This is Van Dusen.

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