The archive highlights a lifelong friendship between two renowned mathematicians. However, despite his accolades and singular mind, Turing couldn’t evade society’s bigotry. In 1952, a court in the ...

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Lost scientific papers of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, rescued from a loft and then nearly destroyed, are set to go under the hammer in June. The archive, expected to fetch thousands of ...

Rare notebooks of Alan Turing’s unpublished code-breaking work during the Second World War have been saved for the nation thanks to a charity campaign. The handwritten notes document Turing’s “Delilah ...

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 ...

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing published a paper about whether computers could think. He proposed a thought experiment, a version of a parlor game in which notes are passed back and forth ...