Mathematician Alan Turing's theoretical basis for all modern computers known as the 'universal machine' has been voted the greatest British innovation of the past century in a new poll. The famous ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...

David Fisk (Letters, August 2) suggests that Cathy O’Neil’s analysis of the French response to the General Data Protection Regulation is wrong, and cites Rice’s theorem. However, this is misleading ...

Tributes have been paid to a female code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's encrypted secrets during the Second World War after she died aged 98. Mary Ratcliffe worked at a ...

When Autonomy, my software company, went public, the city types wanted to see a traditional chairman rather than deal with these young precocious geeks that had created the software. A suitable pillar ...