This might be of interest to some best Bernardo Bangor University (Wales) Alan Turing - A Forbidden Fruit, its Serendipitous Fall and a Poisoned Bite Date: 2014 By: K.Vela Velupillai URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:trn:utwpas:1407&r=his Abstract I summarise some of the various ways in which the Turing birth centennial has been commemorated, paying homage to a few of his remarkable hints on how to ‘see further’. The third section is an outline of what I call the five classic contributions by Turing, those which embody what Max Newman in his early (1955) Royal Society Biographical Memoir (Cooper-van Leeuven, pp. 5-12) referred to as their ‘unity of purpose’ (ibid., p. 7). The concluding section is written with my economist’s ‘hat’ firmly placed on my aged head – wondering why so much confusion and misconceptions surround many of the claimed applications of computability (and Brouwerian constructivity) in applied and pure economic theory