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.

Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, an achievement that shortened World War II and saved millions of lives. His work remained classified for decades, leaving him ...

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 ...

Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...

Family background -- Childhood and early boyhood -- At Sherborne School -- At Cambridge -- At the graduate college, Princeton -- Some characteristics -- War work in the foreign office -- At the ...

This week is the anniversary of Alan Turing's birthday. Since 1966, the Turing Award has been given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person for technical contributions to the ...