Alan Turing, the British mathematician who committed suicide almost 60 years ago, has been royally pardoned by Queen Elizabeth decades after his death. Turing helped create the devices that helped ...

Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept. It's hard to overestimate Alan Turing ...

2005-11-20T16:09:08-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ee6/20051120161008002_hd.jpgDavid Leavitt, author of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", discusses the work, legacy ...

Family background -- Childhood and early boyhood -- At Sherborne School -- At Cambridge -- At the graduate college, Princeton -- Some characteristics -- War work in the foreign office -- At the ...