English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had previously been involved with ...

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. Alan Turing, the UK mathematician whose work paved the way for modern ...

Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician credited with deciphering Nazi Germany’s impenetrable Enigma code, has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new £50 note. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney ...

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, ...

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 ...

Alan Turing, a mathematician and code breaker who deciphered German World War II messages, will appear on Britain's new 50 pound note. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday that Turing, who ...

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 ...

There can be few places more sacred to Britain’s national story than Bletchley Park. From its shabby huts, an eccentric army ...

A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.