Alan Turing’s signed undergraduate copy of Hardy’s classic analysis text
A Course of Pure Mathematics. Fifth edition.
8vo (150 x 222 mm). 228 ff. Publisher's red cloth.
€ 28,000.00
A student copy of Hardy’s foundational textbook, owned and signed by Alan Turing and dated February 1931, the year he went up to King’s College, Cambridge. Long the standard introduction to real analysis in British universities, Hardy’s Course shaped generations of mathematicians; for Turing and his cohort it provided the rigorous language of limits, continuity, and series that underpinned later work in logic and computability.
As an early, dated witness to Turing’s Cambridge formation, this copy offers a tangible link between undergraduate training and the conceptual foundations that soon led to his epoch making papers.
Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), signed and dated in brown ink on front free endpaper; Robin Gandy (1919-1995), Turing's friend and one of his executors; bequeathed to Wolfson College. A Fellow of Wolfson from 1970 until his death in 1995, Gandy generously left his entire estate to the College, including this book once owned by Alan Turing, with the wish that his legacy be used to benefit the College and its students. Deaccessioned to fund student support (Turing-Gandy bursary initiative).
Spine laid down, paper gently toned with minor handling to margins. In good condition.
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