Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial ...

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had ...

Several books were devoted to Turing, including an imposing biography by British mathematician Andrew Hodges, published in 1983: Alan Turing: The Enigma (Burnett Books/Hutchinson). The book has ...