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Rare Turing notebook sells for US$1m in New York auction

Published Tue, Apr 14, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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A LONG-LOST notebook owned by British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing sold at auction in New York for US$1 million, Bonhams auction house said.

The sale on Monday of the recently discovered notebook comes at a time of enormous interest in Turing's life and work generated by Oscar-winning movie The Imitation Game.

The manuscript, which sold for…

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