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Saved from the shredder, Alan Turing's papers sell for $627,000

The archive contextualizes one of the 20th century's most brilliant thinkers.

Codebreaker Alan Turing’s papers sell for ‘record’ £465K after almost being shredded - The Mirror

Papers belonging to mathematician Alan Turing - who created machines that helped to crack Adolf Hitler's enigma code - have been sold for a record breaking £465,000 at auction

Codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for ‘record’ £465,000

The archive of papers included a signed copy of Turing’s 1939 PhD dissertation Systems Of Logic Based On Ordinals.

Codebreaker Alan Turing’s papers discovered in a Bermondsey loft sell for a record total of £465,400 at auction

Papers belonging to World War Two codebreaker Sir Alan Turing that were discovered over a decade ago in a Bermondsey

Alan Turing papers rescued from a shredder sell for £465,400 at auction

Credit: Rare Book Auctions A portfolio of papers by maths genius Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,000 at auction. The papers were found in a loft and heading to the shredder. But a family’s curiosity into their provenance led to a “drop-in” valuation day in Southwell, Nottinghamshire held by auctioneer Charles Hanson. Mr Hanson said: “Knowing Turing’s legacy – his life, his brilliance, and his contribution to modern computing – I was compl…

Alan Turing papers sell for thousands - Antique Collecting

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