A collection of scientific papers from English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing, has sold for £465,400 (US$625,000) at auction after narrowly avoiding being ...

Many have heard of Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician who invented modern computing in 1935. They know that Turing, the cryptologist who cracked the Nazi Enigma code, helped win World War II.

Items belonging to an Englishman credited with cracking encrypted Nazi communications during World War II, and who later earned accolades as one of the founding fathers of computer science, were ...

Considered the father of computer science, Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking German naval ciphers coded by the Enigma machine, enabling critical Allied victories during World War II. After the ...