Andrew Hodges
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Andrew Hodges is a mathematician
Mathematician
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, an author
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 and a pioneer of the gay liberation
Gay Liberation
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 movement of the 1970s.

For the past decades (since 1972), Hodges has focused his research activities on the twistor theory
Twistor theory
In theoretical and mathematical physics, twistor theory maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a 4 dimensional space with metric signature...

 — the new approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by the mathematician Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...

.

Hodges is perhaps best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...

. The book was chosen by Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd
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 as part of a list of 50 'essential' books (that were currently available in print) in The Guardian
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, 1 June 2002. He is also the author of works that popularize science and mathematics.

He is a Tutorial Fellow in mathematics at Wadham College
Wadham College, Oxford
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, Oxford University.

Books by Andrew Hodges

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma, Vintage edition 1992, first published by Burnett Books Ltd, 1983. ISBN 0099116413.
  • One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers, Short Books, London, 2007. ISBN 1904977758.
  • With downcast gays: Aspects of homosexual self-oppression, Pink Triangle Press, 1977. ISBN 0920430007.

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