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Codebreaker, also known as Britain's Greatest Codebreaker, is a 2011 television docudrama aired on Channel 4 about the life of Alan Turing.The film had a limited release in the U.S. beginning on 17 October 2012.
Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War Two but who committed suicide after being convicted for homosexuality, will appear on the Bank of ...
Alan Mathison Turing OBE (/ ˈ tj ʊər ɪ ŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [5]
A biography published by the Royal Society shortly after Turing's death, [3] while his wartime work was still subject to the Official Secrets Act, recorded: . Three remarkable papers written just before the war, on three diverse mathematical subjects, show the quality of the work that might have been produced if he had settled down to work on some big problem at that critical time.
Turing, a key figure at second world war code breaking facility Bletchley Park, picked from an illustrious list of nominees including Paul Dirac, Ada Lovelace, Stephen Hawking, and Ernest Rutherford.
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Codebreaker or Code breaker may also refer to: The Codebreakers, a 1967 book on history of cryptography by David Kahn; Code:Breaker, a 2008 manga by Akimine Kamijyo; Code Breakers, a 2005 American TV film about West Point; The Code-Breakers, a 2006 British documentary film about software; Codebreaker, a 2011 British film about Alan Turing
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization.