Additions to papers and correspondence, ca. 1918-1974.

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Additions to papers and correspondence, ca. 1918-1974.

Includes biographical and personal material all received from the estate of Mrs Sarah Turing and many items bear annotations and corrections by her. Several refer to the preparation and publication of her biography of her son, which was published by Heffer of Cambridge in 1959, and include biographical information and recollections. There is material on morphogenesis from N.E. Hoskin which represents a substantial addition to the documentation of Turing's work and thinking on this topic, left uncompleted at his death. There are photocopied letters and calculations exchanged by Turing and I. J. Good made available by Good, and some original letters by Turing, most of them addressed to P. Hall, received from A. Hodges, author of the biography 'Alan Turing: The Enigma.'

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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954

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Turing read mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of King's in 1935. He began research in mathematical logic which led to his well-known work on computable numbers and the 'Turing Machine.' He spent two years at Princeton University, 1936-1938, working with A. Church, and the war years at Bletchley Park, at the Code and Cypher School, 1939-1945, and was awarded the OBE for his work on 'Enigma' and other codes. At the end of the war he declined a Cambridge University Lec...