If the Oscar - nominatedThe Imitation Gameleft you thirst a more reliable look at the brilliant - but - misunderstood British mathematician Alan Turing — and you have a seven - figure budget for discretional spending — you might want to check outBonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts ' sale in New York on April 13 .
The auction bridge house will be selling , on behalf of an anon. marketer , a hand - written notebook kept by Turing during the menses of time wrap up in the movie . The 56 - page holograph dates to 1942 , when Turing ( among other cryptographer ) was working on crack the Germans ' " unbreakable " riddle code at Britain ’s World War II codification and cypher school Bletchley Park . It ’s think to be the only extensive manuscript that exist from Turing .
The notebook computer includes Turing ’s personal thought on the complex mathematics he allot with . " The Leibniz notational system dx / dy I find extremely difficult to sympathise in spite of it having been the one I understood the best once ! " he wrote at one tip . It was among the papers Turing lead in his will to friend and fellow mathematician Robin Gandy after he institutionalize suicide in 1954 . In 1977 , Gandy gifted all of the rest of the papers to the Archive Center at King ’s College , Cambridge , Turing ’s alma mater . But the notebook computer he kept for himself , and plant personal use for . On the blank Page , Gandy kept a highly personal dream diary . " It seems a desirable disguise to write in between these notes of Alan ’s on notational system , " he wrote in a note added to the front of the holograph , " but possibly a little sinister ; a dead Padre figure , some of whose thoughts I most altogether inherited . "
Cassandra Hatton , Senior Specialist in Fine Books and Manuscripts and the story of Science at Bonhams , pronounce , " This holograph go steady from the clip when Turing was engaged in the crucial project of breaking the Enigma Code . Its mathematical subject gives an extraordinary insight into the work judgment of one of the greatest notable of the 20th century . This is quite simply one of the most extraordinary piece I have ever had the perquisite to handle . "
