Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

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War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Getting out into nature may seem a world away from a maths classroom. But the beauty that surrounds us has order – and one of the world’s best codebreakers was the key to unlocking it. Alan Turing may ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

machinery, but I shall deal here only with his statistical ideas. All of these date from 1941 or 1940. These statistical ideas are not treated in the biography of Turing by his mother (Turing, In ...