Alan Turing's notebook

As sent to me by Martin Evans :
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Martin H Evans email : mhe1000-v9/[email protected]
            http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mhe1000/
( I am no longer maintaining my web-site list of British maritime-related
collections, which includes Bletchley Park. At the age of 85 I found
that I was getting too slow at updating it, and it became a burden )
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A notebook belonging to the man known as the father of the computing age 
is expected to fetch at least $1m at auction.

Alan Turing's notebook is thought to date from 1942, when the Briton was 
leading the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park in the battle to break the 
German Enigma codes.

The notebook containing 56 pages of handwritten notes was among papers 
that Turing left in his will to his friend and fellow mathematician Robin 
Gandy. Years later Gandy deposited them at the archive of King's College, 
Cambridge, but kept this notebook.

Cassandra Hatton, senior specialist in fine books and manuscripts and the 
history of science at Bonhams, said Turing;s notes were the precursor to 
much of the work he later did on computers. "He is working on logic and 
the foundations of mathematics with the aim of creating a universal 
language for a universal computing machine," she said.

The notebook will be sold on behalf of an anonymous vendor in New York
on April 13 at the Bonhams fine books and manuscripts sale...../snip/


http://www.bonhams.com/press_release/18431/


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cd18536-9ff8-11e4-aa89-00144feab7de.html#axzz3PV3vkPEY

http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/b051d9d6-f035-45f8-9e17-b0232141e3dc.img

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/20/unseen-alan-turing-notebook-to-fetch-1m

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-1430/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/1/20/1421768899837/339fa7b9-b32a-4b9e-8c0c-8a9ad81e367b-2060x748.jpeg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2919112/Turing-s-Enigma-notebook-containing-codebreaker-s-calculations-set-fetch-650-000-auction.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/20/24DE265C00000578-0-image-a-31_1421797463757.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/20/24DE271D00000578-0-image-a-33_1421797529253.jpg


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/01/21/the-secret-million-dollar-notebook-from-genius-code-breaker-alan-turning/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2015/01/Manuscript-hi-res.jpg&w=1484

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/21/alan_turings_lost_notebook_goes_under_the_hammer/

http://regmedia.co.uk/2015/01/21/turing_notebook_extract.jpg

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/01/21/nazi-code-breaker-alan-turings-notebook-to-be-auctioned/22100865/