Turing is celebrated for his work in deciphering messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine.
So, at least for now, investigators and the public are left with only enigma.
His page-turning 1997 account of the solution of a mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Enigma, was a bestseller.
He is an enigma though who is his own man and does his own thing.
The enigma may leave some readers (especially students wanting answers) feeling slightly cheated, and others intrigued.
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There is Dylan the prophet, the enigma, the innovator, the restless lover, the preacher and the outlaw.
The Enigma machine was used by the German navy, air force and army to send encrypted messages.
Novelistic vivacity, the great unteachable, the unschooled enigma, has a way of making questions of form appear scholastic.
Speaking outside Newcastle Crown Court, John Sampson, assistant chief constable of West Yorkshire Police, branded Bieber an enigma.
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The real test is for Mr Aliev, who is as much of a Caucasian enigma as his country.
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With the advent of the first electrical cipher, the German Enigma machine in 1918, cryptanalysis changed its fundamental character.
One of the first huts to house the Enigma code breaking device at Bletchley Park is to be restored.
Below, on the battlefields of Europe, German intelligence officers made the same oath to another computer, the Enigma coding machine.
Big institutional investors may sell because their policies forbid them to own stock in a company that has become an enigma.
Described by Mehta as "a cross between Pat Buchanan and Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator", Mr Thackeray was a bewildering enigma.
Young and very talented, he has been picked over Ravi Bopara, who remains something of an enigma, and principally as a batsman.
For most of the last century, Overhills was a deliberately low-profile enigma.
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Some attribute it all to the enigma that is Alan Greenspan, who fervently believes in free markets as a part of human nature.
For the film Enigma, he learnt the fundamentals of code-breaking to play Tom Jericho, a mathematics genius at the centre of the film.
"I am definitely an enigma for the position, " Taylor said Friday after the Giants opened a two-day camp for rookies and free agents.
And while there are new drugs and treatments constantly being tested, some with good rates of success, cancer is still largely an enigma.
At a concert Saturday night, the Phoenix Symphony added to the program a somber selection from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations to honor the victims.
"Working in tandem, I think we can be confident of a resolution to the dark matter enigma sometime in the next few years, " Heuer said.
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This year, Chelsea has been a tactical enigma at both ends.
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Bletchley Park was the wartime home of the Government Code and Cypher School which broke the codes generated by the German Enigma machine, using the Bombe.
Based at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.
The arc of this luminous talent, as I see it, reached its apogee toward the close of the millennium, and then partly withdrew into enigma and opacity.
The BBC's Africa analyst Martin Plaut says the ANC leader is still something of an enigma - part Zulu traditionalist, part international leader who jets around the world.
The reason: The former cyclist and cancer-survivor remains an enigma.
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