If the Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game left you craving a more authentic look at the brilliant-but-misunderstood British mathematician Alan Turing—and you have a seven-figure budget for discretionary spending—you might want to check out Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts’ sale in New York on April 13.
The auction house will be selling, on behalf of an anonymous vendor, a hand-written notebook kept by Turing during the period of time covered in the movie. The 56-page manuscript dates to 1942, when Turing (among other cryptanalysts) was working on cracking the Germans’ “unbreakable” enigma codes at Britain’s World War II code and cypher school Bletchley Park. It’s thought to be the only extensive manuscript that exists from Turing.
via Mental Floss
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