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Andrew Hodges
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Hodges was born in London in 1949<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and educated at <a href="/facts/Birkbeck%2c_University_of_London/0xSxtEUk">Birkbeck, University of London</a>, where he was awarded his <a href="/facts/Doctor_of_Philosophy/paJumdN8">Doctor of Philosophy</a> degree in 1975<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> for research on <a href="/facts/Twistor_theory/DrtqvKCs">twistor theory</a> supervised by <a href="/facts/Roger_Penrose/r4mlrFUH">Roger Penrose</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career-and-research">Career and research</h2> <p>Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on <a href="/facts/Twistor_theory/DrtqvKCs">twistor theory</a>, which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by <a href="/facts/Roger_Penrose/r4mlrFUH">Roger Penrose</a>. He was also involved in the <a href="/facts/Gay_liberation/8jUVl396">gay liberation</a> movement during this time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Hodges is best known as the author of <i><a href="/facts/Alan_Turing%3a_The_Enigma/l8LlG6lf">Alan Turing: The Enigma</a></i>, his biography of the British computer pioneer and codebreaker <a href="/facts/Alan_Turing/klov9b6g">Alan Turing</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> The book was critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1983, with <a href="/facts/Donald_Michie/qvesIVeK">Donald Michie</a> in <i><a href="/facts/New_Scientist/GE0SBrn0">New Scientist</a></i> calling it "marvellous and faithful".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> In June 2002 it was chosen by <a href="/facts/Michael_Holroyd/0x1PUFhI">Michael Holroyd</a> for inclusion in a list of 50 "essential" books (available in print at the time) in <i><a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p><i>Alan Turing: The Enigma</i> formed the basis of <a href="/facts/Hugh_Whitemore/FBD5N2AB">Hugh Whitemore</a>'s 1986 stage play <i><a href="/facts/Breaking_the_Code/pH4J3Syd">Breaking the Code</a></i>, which was adapted for television in 1996, with <a href="/facts/Derek_Jacobi/6oGcr0s2">Derek Jacobi</a> as Turing. The book was later made into the 2014 film <i><a href="/facts/The_Imitation_Game/c5b4gtF8">The Imitation Game</a></i> directed by <a href="/facts/Morten_Tyldum/XKa7EoCF">Morten Tyldum</a>, starring <a href="/facts/Benedict_Cumberbatch/kaWGX35T">Benedict Cumberbatch</a> as <a href="/facts/Alan_Turing/klov9b6g">Alan Turing</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> The script for <i>The Imitation Game</i> won <a href="/facts/Graham_Moore_(writer)/CYuTWSvH">Graham Moore</a> an Oscar for <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay/JI9tgesp">Best Adapted Screenplay</a> at the <a href="/facts/87th_Academy_Awards/PlmWM1x0">87th Academy Awards</a> in 2015. </p><p>Hodges is also the author of works that popularise science and mathematics. </p><p>He is an emeritus tutorial <a href="/facts/Fellow/DLThQbkq">fellow</a> in mathematics at <a href="/facts/Wadham_College%2c_Oxford/3TpGlWMu">Wadham College, Oxford</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> Having taught at Wadham since 1986, Hodges was elected a Fellow in 2007, and was appointed <a href="/facts/Dean_of_Wadham_College/FRQo7PRp">Dean of Wadham College</a> from the start of the 2011/2012 academic year. </p><p>In 2014 he joined the <a href="/facts/Pet_Shop_Boys/RFEGJFm0">Pet Shop Boys</a> on stage at the <a href="/facts/Royal_Albert_Hall/9u7QUvTD">Royal Albert Hall</a> for a standing ovation following the world premiere of <i>A The Man from the Future</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> at <a href="/facts/The_Proms/kejAkqTX">The Proms</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p> <h3>Publications</h3> <ul><li><i>With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Alan_Turing%3a_The_Enigma/l8LlG6lf">Alan Turing: The Enigma</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li> <li><i>One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Prof. Andrew Hodges". maths.ox.ac.uk. <a href="https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.hodges" target="_blank">https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.hodges</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Andrew Hodges". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 14 July 2024. <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/andrew-hodges" target="_blank">https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/andrew-hodges</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Hodges, Andrew Philip (1975). The Description of Mass within the Theory of Twistors. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Birkbeck, University of London. OCLC 500473477. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.459296. <a href="http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3004898" target="_blank">http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3004898</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Andrew Hodges at the Mathematics Genealogy Project <a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=49353" target="_blank">https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=49353</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Smith, Nick. "The Imitation Game: the author of the book of the film". The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170013/http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/11/interview-andrew-hodges.cfm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170013/http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/11/interview-andrew-hodges.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Hodges, Andrew. "Alan Turing: The Enigma — Notes by the author". turing.org.uk. <a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/book/" target="_blank">http://www.turing.org.uk/book/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Michie, Donald (9 February 1984). "A loner, a misfit, a genius". newscientist.com. London: New Scientist. pp. 36–37. Retrieved 16 December 2015. <a href="/wiki/Donald_Mitchie" target="_blank">/wiki/Donald_Mitchie</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>A library for all seasons, The Guardian, 1 June 2002 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4425446,00.html" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4425446,00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Inspiring 'The Imitation Game'". Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220211144321/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/november/inspiring-the-imitation-game" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20220211144321/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/november/inspiring-the-imitation-game</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"The Imitation Game". timeout.com. Time Out London. Retrieved 10 November 2014. <a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-imitation-game-2014" target="_blank">http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-imitation-game-2014</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Prof. Andrew Hodges". maths.ox.ac.uk. <a href="https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.hodges" target="_blank">https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.hodges</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Andrew Hodges". Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2022. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210422172343/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/emeritus-fellows/h/andrew-hodges" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20210422172343/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/emeritus-fellows/h/andrew-hodges</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"A Man from the Future – Pet Shop Boys – Theatre & Film". <a href="https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/theatre-film/a-man-from-the-future" target="_blank">https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/theatre-film/a-man-from-the-future</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Pet Shop Boys and Proms for Wadham Fellow". Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220211142326/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/july/pet-shop-boys-and-proms-for-wadham-fellow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20220211142326/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/july/pet-shop-boys-and-proms-for-wadham-fellow</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression Pink Triangle Press, 1977. ISBN 0-920430-00-7 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Alan Turing: The Enigma Vintage edition 1992, first published by Burnett Books Ltd, 1983. ISBN 0-09-911641-3 <a href="/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma" target="_blank">/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers Short Books, London, 2007. ISBN 1-904977-75-8 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>