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Robin Oliver Gandy (1919 - 20 November1995) was a British mathematician and logician.

He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at Cambridge University (graduated 1953), where he was a member of the Apostles. The two worked together during World War II on a speech encipherment project at Hanslope Park.

Gandy taught at Manchester University until 1969, when he moved to Wolfson College, Oxford, where he was Reader in Mathematical Logic.

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