Catalogue description Letters from various authors to AMT

This record is held by Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

Details of AMT/D/5
Reference: AMT/D/5
Title: Letters from various authors to AMT
Description:

13 autograph letters signed, 5 typed letters signed and 2 typed postcards signed from colleagues and friends, mainly on mathematical problems. In cases where a link can be established with a published paper, a reference is given in brackets to the bibliography in the Royal Society memoir (catalogued as A/36). The file comprises:-

 

- 1 typed letter signed from Paul Bernays to AMT, 24 Sept. 1937, regarding bibliography number RS 1937d;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from Rupert Crawshay-Williams to AMT, 19 Apr. 1951, regarding bibliography number RS 1950b;

 

- 1 typed letter signed from Sir Charles Darwin to AMT, 11 Nov.1947, regarding a paper by AMT on 'Intelligent Machinery', published in 'Machine Intelligence' 5, 1969;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from G. H. Hardy to AMT, [?late 1930s];

 

- 4 autograph letters signed from Albert Edward Ingham to AMT, 1937 - 1951;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed and 1 typed letter signed from John von Neumann to AMT, 13 Sept. 1949 and 5 Dec. [? 1951], regarding bibliography number RS 1950a;

 

- manuscript notes by Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, Jan. 1935, regarding Fellowship Dissertation and bibliography number RS 1935a;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from Norman [Routledge] to AMT, [? 1952];

 

- 2 typed postcards signed from Heinrich Scholz to AMT, 11 Feb. and 15 Mar. 1937, regarding bibliography number RS 1937a;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from S. Skewes to AMT, 9 Dec. 1937;

 

- 1 typed letter signed from Christopher Strachey to AMT, 15 May 1951, regarding broadcast talk B/5;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from Edward Charles Titchmarsh to AMT, 1 Dec. 1937;

 

- 1 typed letter signed from Conrad Hal Waddington, 11 Sept. 1952, regarding bibliography number RS 1952;

 

- 2 autograph letters signed from John Henry Constantine Whitehead, 10 and 19 Apr. 1951, regarding bibliography number RS 1950a;

 

- 1 autograph letter signed from John Zachary Young to AMT, 13 Jan. 1951, written in answer to K/1/78. See online copies at the Turing Digital Archive

Note:

Some items are in German.

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Date: 1935-1952
Arrangement:

The material is arranged alphabetically.

Held by: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 41 items in envelope paper

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