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.

He used his genius at maths to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, helping speed up the Allies' victory. But before that, Alan Turing turned his mind to a less vital but potentially more profitable task – ...

"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

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 ...

Alan Turing’s lost notebook, in which he worked on the foundations of modern computer science, was sold for a whopping $1,025,000 at the Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at Bonhams, which took place ...

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma," and the gay Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code -- Alan Turing -- was very much an enigma himself. CBS News’ Anthony ...

The father of modern computing is to be granted a posthumous pardon, thanks to a backbench bill tabled for the end of October. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but ...

World War II had many heroes whose names everyone knows: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur are only a few. But those who worked behind the scenes are less known, often ...

Papers written by Alan Turing during his famous work breaking the Germans' "Enigma" code have been found being used as crude insulation in a hut where the pioneering computer scientist and ...

To the world, Alan Turing is ­remembered as Britain’s wartime code-breaking genius, the man who unlocked the secrets of the Enigma machine. But to one little girl, the tormented gay mathematician ...