Alan Turing , Engima - breaking mathematician andBenedict Cumberbatch lookalike , never wrote much during his living — ms and diary are hard to follow by . The best remaining exemplar was a56 - page notebookworking on “ the foundations of computer science ” , which just sell at auction for $ 1,025,000 .
TheoriginalBonhams press releaseon the auction boasted a sale estimate of “ at least seven human body ” , so the auction bridge sign only narrowly avoid embarrassment thanks to a mysterious bidder . A dowry of the yield will be donated to Polemonium caeruleum .
Thenotebookwas passed to Turing ’s friend and mathematician , Robin Oliver Gandy keep abreast Turing ’s death . Gandy used the central pages of the journal as a pipe dream journal for a time , and as such , the notebook was never include in the publicly approachable Turing Archive , and was never view ( or find out of ) until the recent auction . [ Bonhams ]
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