Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...
The World War II mathematician, who helped break Germany's Enigma Code, beat 989 scientists to earn legal tender immortality. Sean knows far too much about Marvel, DC and Star Wars, and poured this ...
The wartime codebreaker and computing genius was pursued for homosexuality, but nobody – until film-makers came along – accused him of being a traitor, writes Alex von Tunzelmann ...
The British government is hoping a national institution will snap up two notebooks belonging to groundbreaking mathematician Alan Turing, so that the documents can remain in the U.K. A temporary ...
This reimagined scene from 'The Imitation Game' features the memorable line, 'Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines ...
The man who helped crack the Enigma code has been honoured with his very own Google doodle. Alan Turing, known as the father of modern computing, was born 100 years ago today. He helped develop the ...
British maths genius Alan Turing was famously the man who decoded messages on the Nazi’s Enigma machine – and cut short the Second World War by two years. But it was the Poles who, a decade earlier, ...
A rare manuscript written by British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing has gone up for auction along with several other pieces of computer science history, including a fully functional Enigma ...
Born June 23, 1912, legendary English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst Alan Turing is best-known today for successfully cracking “the Enigma code,” a sophisticated cipher used to ...