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 ...

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 ...

The BBC said the Government Communications Headquarters was releasing the papers on the occasion of the centenary of Turing's birth. The GCHQ is quoted as saying that the typed papers with handwritten ...

The Bank of England has decided that the next prominent figure to feature on the £50 note should be a scientist and have put the call out for nominations from the general public. For me, there is one ...

The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...

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.