September 10th Rare Autographs, Books and Sports
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TURING ALAN: (1912-1954) British Mathematician and Computer Scientist, famous for his work during World War II at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre, where he was responsible for devising techniques for breaking German ciphers, including those generated by the Enigma machine. An extremely rare ink signature ('A. M. Turing') and date, 18th - 21st December [1931] in his hand on a 4to page removed from a Vistors' book. The page also bears eighteen other ink signatures and dates by various individuals. Autographs of Turing are extremely rare in any form not least as a result of his tragically early death at the age of 41. EX
The present page was removed from the Visitors' Book for Abbey Grange and Westcott House, a boarding house associated with Sherborne School in Dorset. Turing attended the independent school from the age of 13, in 1926, before studying as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, from 1931-34.
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Alan Turing- the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence Very Rare Autograph
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