Computing Pioneer's Papers To Stay in Public Collection

摘要

Rare offprints of the scientific papers of mathematician and World War II British codebreaker Alan Turing have, with the help of generous donations, been bought for the Bletchley Park Trust, the museum housed in the wartime codebreaking center where Turing helped crack the German Enigma code. Little remains of Turing's personal belongings and papers, so these offprints-given by Turing to friend and fellow code-breaker Max Newman and with notes in Turing's hand-were expected to fetch at least £300,000 at auction. But after donations from the U.K.'s National Heritage Memorial Fund, Google, and the public, Bletchley Park was able to buy them.