Alan Turing Memorial

charliecochrane mentioned the other day that she had never seen the memorial statue dedicated to Alan Turing in Manchester's Sackville Gardens. Since I happened to have a meeting in Manchester yesterday I went along and took some pictures. I can't claim it's a brilliant likeness but it's a really lovely memorial situated in a little park right between the university and Canal Street, the centre of Manchester's vibrant gay community. The statue was funded by public subscription and the patron of the fund was Derek Jacobi who played Turing in the 1996 tv biopic Breaking the Code.

The plaque reads:
Alan Mathison Turing
1912 - 1954
Father of Computer Science
Mathematician, Logician
Wartime Codebreaker
Victim of Prejudice.
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,
but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere,
like that of sculpture." Bertrand Russell