The 2014 film The Imitation Game tells the inspiring story of mathematician Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers whose work was crucial to British efforts in World War Two.
The film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly, focuses on the race to decode messages produced by the German military’s seemingly unbreakable Enigma machine.
However, the film is not a completely accurate account of historical events, instead inventing fictional characters, rearranging the chronology of events and injecting conflict for entertainment purposes.
So what is the true story behind the film and its characters? Who was Alan Turing? Alan Turing was a mathematician who made major contributions to mathematics, computer science and artificial
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