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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Britain has stopped the export of rare wartime papers that once belonged to national hero Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Chris Owen who works at Octopus Communications and is a passionate supporter of the Bletchley Park Trust. He can be found tweeting from <a ...

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