A 56 page manuscript compiled by code breaking genius Alan Turing during World War 2 has been sold for more than $ 1 Million ($ 1,025,000) at an auction House in New York.
It is the first time that a manuscript by Turing has been available to the public according to Bonhams.The Handwritten notes which dates back to 1942 are best known for cracking the code used by the Germans in their Enigma machines when he worked for government code and cipher school at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
Deciphering these messages are said to have shortened the war by almost 2 years.The manuscript also contains work by other mathematicians and finds way to build on that.
Turing had left his mathematical books with fellow mathematician Robert Gandy. All these books were given to King's college,Cambridge with just one exception: this notebook.The auction house says that these documents were withheld by Gandy only because of some secret messages written in the middle pages.
The sales of the book could have been boosted by the 2014 movie The Imitation Game,starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The Academy-Award winning movie has details about Turing's work and life including his "Homosexuality treatment".
In 2009,Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized on behalf of the British Government for the way Turing was treated during his final days.Turing was granted a posthumous pardon in 2013.
Turing died in 1954 due to cyanide poisoning.His death which was termed as suicide by the government but is disputed with family,friends claiming it to be an accident.
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