To many, the name Bletchley Park is synonymous with code-breaking glory by the British during World War Two. After all, it was there that Englishman Alan Turing and his team of mathematicians cracked ...
Among the many things that computer science pioneer Alan Turing is remembered for was his tremendous contribution to the British war effort in which he is credited with cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma ...
The battle against the ‘unbreakable’ Nazi Engima code shortened World War 2 by up to two years - and paved the way for the computer age. But while films such as The Imitation Game hand all the credit ...
British author Dermot Turing has been honoured with a Polish state decoration for his new book in which he sheds light on the role of Polish mathematicians in breaking the code of Nazi German Enigma ...
Mathematicians Rejewski, Zygalski and Różycki are commemorated on Bletchley Park’s Polish Memorial Bletchley Park is to celebrate the work of three Polish mathematicians who cracked the German Enigma ...
A silk scarf bearing the image of a horse race was a suitably cryptic gift for a Polish mathematician to receive from a British code-breaker. The Poles had got there first - that seemed to be the ...