Sixty years after his tragic death, the brilliant English mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) has come back to life, if only virtually, in the new movie The Imitation Game.

The movie spotlights Turing's work as a code-breaker during World War II--a logical choice given his success in cracking a key German naval code known as Enigma. But if cracking Enigma was Turing's most tangible achievement, his greatest scientific legacy is his earlier theoretical work. So says Andrew Hodges, author of the 1983 Turing biography on which The Imitation Game was based, in this interview with HuffPost Science editor David Freeman.

Alan Turing's Biographer On The Truth About The Troubled Genius And His Tragic Death

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Actor Alan Alda explains his push for plain-spoken science and the inspiration for The Flame Challenge.


Alan Alda On Plain-Spoken Science

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The Cold War may be over, but that doesn't mean there's no longer a significant risk of nuclear war. Quite the contrary, as Dr. Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, explains in this wide-ranging interview with David Freeman, Huffington Post's senior science editor.

The Scary Truth About The Threat Of Nuclear War

Want to have a better understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity? Listen as HuffPost's senior science editor, David Freeman, speaks with Dr. Pedro G. Ferreira, professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford in England and the author of "The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity."

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