Norman Routledge

Norman Arthur Routledge (7 March 1928 – 27 April 2013) was a British mathematician and schoolteacher. He was a personal friend of fellow mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954).

Life and career Norman Routledge was born near Alexandra Park, north London, England.

Returning to academia, Routledge became a research Fellow in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He taught college undergraduates, and after a time was a director of studies.

In 1959, Robert Birley, Headmaster at Eton College, asked Routledge for a recommendation of some promising student for a mathematics teaching post; and he suggested himself. He taught mathematics at the school for some years and was later a housemaster. He was considered an inspirational teacher, Later in his life, he taught music for the Salvation Army community in Bermondsey, southeast London. In retirement towards the end of his own life, he was able to be more openly gay.

Association with Alan Turing Routledge was a friend of the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, whom he met after World War II, when Turing was in Cambridge to study physiology.

The 1992 documentary programme The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing had Routledge as one of the interviewees.

Selected publications