Andrew Hodges

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Andrew Philip Hodges (* 1949 in London ) is a British mathematical physicist.

Hodges received his PhD from the University of London in 1975 with Roger Penrose (The Description of Mass within the Theory of Twistors). He is currently Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College of Oxford University , where he also lectures on general relativity. He was particularly interested in Roger Penrose's Twistor theory and its application in elementary particle physics. He is best known as the author of the authoritative biography of Alan Turing , published in 1983. The idea for this came up in the 1970s when Hodges was active in the homosexual movement in Great Britain (Turing, one of the most famous British mathematicians, committed because of the persecution of his homosexual disposition 1954 suicide). Hodges book provided the basis for the film The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in the lead roles.

Fonts

  • Alan Turing- Enigma . Berlin, Kammerer and Unverzagt 1989, 2nd edition Springer 1994, ISBN 3-211-82627-0 (English original: Alan Turing- The Enigma. Burnett Books and Simon and Schuster 1983, Vintage 1992)
  • One to Nine: the inner life of numbers . Short Books, London 2007
  • The outrageous silence of the gays . Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-921495-26-1 (English original: With downcast gays: Aspects of homosexual self-oppression . Pink Triangle Press 1977)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life in the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  2. ^ Philipp Sussmann: The Imitation Game: First picture of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. In: Serienjunkies.de . December 27, 2013, accessed June 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hodges, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodges, Andrew Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH London