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 ...
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 ...
Alan Turing could not have cracked the Enigma Code without the help of Polish mathematicians and it is time to "right the wrong" and acknowledge their contribution, the Polish government has said.
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 ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...
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 ...
Five weeks before Germany's September 1939's invasion of Poland, due to looming war and construction adversities caused by financial shortages, Rejewski and his team, passed a decade worth of 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 ...
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 ...