It may have taken longer to make than it took to win World War II, but a new film about code-breakers at Bletchley Park finally opens at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Saturday. It has taken six years ...

As the movie Enigma hits our screens BBC News Online talks to Robert Harris, whose original novel about the work of wartime code breakers inspired the film makers. For Robert Harris, best-selling ...

An Enigma machine on display at a museum Photo: Elgaard [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)] Polish mathematician Henryk Zygalski, along ...

Ordinarily the life of a mathematician isn’t ideal fodder for a major Hollywood movie. But when that mathematician is Alan Turing — the British genius who inspired the modern computer, protected ...

ANCHOR INTRO: Benedict Cumberbatch has played a dragon as well as Sherlock Holmes. This Christmas, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says you can find him playing the mathematician who helped break ...