Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

"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 ...

The book - which has never been seen in public before - dates from 1942 when he was working at Bletchley Park to break the Nazi code. It contains 56 pages of handwritten workings and provides a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Britain has granted a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking hero who killed himself after he was convicted of ...

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 ...

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 Mason ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...