Published by , Cambridge, C.U.P., 1930, 1930
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition Signed
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Add to basket8vo. 104 pp. Publisher's wrappers (lacks spine, covers detached, tear to upper wrapper not touching letters). First edition of Titchmarsh's The Zeta-Function of Riemann". [Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. No. 26], signed ("A.M. Turing") on upper cover.The book was purchased and read during Turing's time as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge from 1931. Provenance: Alan Turing (1912-1954); 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 these books once owned by Alan Turing, with the wish that his legacy be used to benefit the College and its students.