US EditionSaved From the Shredder, Alan Turing's Papers Sell for $627,000
- Alan Turing's scientific papers, discovered in a loft in Nottinghamshire, sold for a record £465,400 at auction on Tuesday.
- The archive belonged to Turing's friend Norman Routledge and was gifted by Turing's mother, with the papers nearly destroyed before discovery.
- Among the notable items sold were Turing's 1937 paper "On Computable Numbers," which fetched £208,000, and his 1938 doctoral thesis titled "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," which sold for £110,500.
- The head of Rare Book Auctions described the collection as the most significant archive he has ever come across and noted that the documents were nearly lost to destruction.
- Turing was convicted in 1952 for homosexuality, later pardoned in 2013, and honored in 2019 by appearing on the £50 note, highlighting his enduring legacy.
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Codebreaker Alan Turing’s papers sell for ‘record’ £465K after almost being shredded - The Mirror
Papers belonging to mathematician Alan Turing - who created machines that helped to crack Adolf Hitler's enigma code - have been sold for a record breaking £465,000 at auction
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Alan Turing papers rescued from a shredder sell for £465,400 at auction
Credit: Rare Book Auctions A portfolio of papers by maths genius Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,000 at auction. The papers were found in a loft and heading to the shredder. But a family’s curiosity into their provenance led to a “drop-in” valuation day in Southwell, Nottinghamshire held by auctioneer Charles Hanson. Mr Hanson said: “Knowing Turing’s legacy – his life, his brilliance, and his contribution to modern computing – I was compl…
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