Rediscovered Alan Turing Account Details Arrest for Homosexuality
A newly published text by Alan Turing describes the autobiographical episode that led to his arrest and conviction for homosexuality, though the manuscript's ending is missing.
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Novel analysis reveals playful side of Alan Turing
Prof Sarah Dillon says the short story, Pryce's Buoy, offers fresh insights into the codebreaker.
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A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.
By Claire Moses
Read full article →Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side
Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic When people think of Alan Turing, they might imagine he was arrogant, isolated, humourless, tortured. A better way of remembering the father of modern computing would be, an academic argues, as “playful, funny, cheeky, literary, and someone who really liked sex”. The Cambridge University English literature professor Sarah Dillon has transcribed and studied a little-known short sto...
By Mark Brown North of England correspondent
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