Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code is a 1996 TV adaptation of the play under the same name by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing. The drama is directed by Herbert Wise and stars Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing, Alun Armstrong as Mick Ross, Blake Ritson as Christopher Morcom, and Richard Johnson as Dillwyn Knox. It is a biography of Alan Turing who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a practicing homosexual at a time when it was illegal in Britain.
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| Alan Turing - wikipedia Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine. |
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