Re: Alan Turing's notebook

Good luck, John - if you can spare the odd $1m+, go ahead...(-;

I wish the notebook would stay in UK, but who is going to put
up that sort of moneys....??

Cheers,
Martin


On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, John Alexander wrote :
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> 2 days ago I had a call from Bonhams, seeking Enigma(s) etc to include 
> alongside these notes.
> 
> Personally, I'd sooner keep Enigmas AND buy these notes :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John 

> 
> > On 21 Jan 2015, at 23:10, Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
>