A treasure of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing fetched $625k at auction after being found in loft and ...

A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of ...

Turing’s most significant work, ‘On computable numbers’, which introduced the idea of a ‘universal computing machine’, was initially valued at £40,000–£60,000 but sold for £208,000. Meanwhile, for ...

Papers belonging to mathematician Alan Turing - who created machines that helped to crack Adolf Hitler's enigma code - have been sold for a record breaking £465,000 at auction ...

A treasure trove of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers has sold for more than three times their expected ...

The archive of papers included a signed copy of Turing’s 1939 PhD dissertation Systems Of Logic Based On Ordinals.

He has since been recognized as one of the fathers of modern computer science: He designed one of the earliest computers, was ...

It was also gifted to Routledge by Turing’s mother and her handwritten letter dated May 16 1956 was included. The letter reads: “I have to-day sent by registered post 13 of Alan’s off-prints … I have ...

Several Alan Turing papers, including "On Computable Numbers ... The newly discovered papers were given by his mother, Ethel Turing, to her son's friend, fellow mathematician Norman Routledge, ...

It was also gifted to Routledge by Turing’s mother and her handwritten letter dated May 16 1956 was included. The letter reads: “I have to-day sent by registered post 13 of Alan’s off-prints … ...