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 was without a doubt a genius and a polymath who not only through his work at Bletchley during the Second World War ...

It is a compassionate, humorous and mesmerising play by Hugh Whitemore presented by the Halifax Thespians. Alan Turing is famed for cracking the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park, effectively securing ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

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 ...

The full cast has been announced for a brand new production of Hugh Whitemore's acclaimed play Breaking the Code. The play follows mastermind Alan Turing's career as a visionary mathematician and ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

The power of Breaking the Code, which premieres at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate, often lies in what is unseen. Much of the horror inflicted on Alan Turing is implied, yet its shadow pervades the ...

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 ...