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Andrew Hodges (born 1949) is a mathematician, author and a pioneer of the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.

Since 1972, Hodges has focused his research activities on twistor theory — the new approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by the mathematician Roger Penrose.

Hodges is perhaps best known as the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, the story of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing.^[1] The book was chosen by Michael Holroyd as part of a list of 50 'essential' books (that were currently available in print) in The Guardian, 1 June 2002.^[2] He is also the author of works that popularize science and mathematics.

He is a Tutorial Fellow in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford.^[3] Having taught at Wadham since 1986, Hodges was elected a Fellow in 2007, and was appointed Dean from start of the 2011/2012 academic year.

Books by Andrew Hodges

• Alan Turing: The Enigma, Vintage edition 1992, first published by Burnett Books Ltd, 1983. ISBN 0-09-911641-3.
• One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers, Short Books, London, 2007. ISBN 1-904977-75-8.
• With downcast gays: Aspects of homosexual self-oppression, Pink Triangle Press, 1977. ISBN 0-920430-00-7.

External links

• http://www.synth.co.uk/ Andrew Hodges' personal website
• http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/ The Alan Turing Home Page by Andrew Hodges
• http://www.twistordiagrams.org.uk/ Twistor diagrams

References

Based on a Wikipedia article.

1. ↑ Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma — Notes by the author.
2. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4425446,00.html A library for all seasons, The Guardian, 1 June 2002)
3. ↑ Academics, Wadham College, Oxford.