Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

A trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after narrowly avoiding destruction. The papers were "offprints," or copies of ...

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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 ...

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In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...

A biography of the mathematician, reveals the story of an eccentric genius, olympic-class runner, and groundbreaking theoretician whose work is still influencing the science and telecommunication ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...