Cory, D. W.
The Homosexual in America 565
County Clare, Ireland 6
Courant, Richard 111, 149, 150
Methoden der Mathematischen Physik 111
Covenanters 4
Crawford, Jack and Mary 168, 180, 308, 331
Crawford, Sarah see Stoney, Sarah
Crawford, William 6
Crawshay-Williams, Rupert 526
Criccieth, Wales 499
Crick, Francis 516, 543
Criminal Justice Act (1948) 591, 592
Critical Convoy Battles of 1943, The 668
Cromer House, London 397, 398
Crown Inn, Shenley Brook End 202, 261, 331, 350, 603
cryptanalysis xvii, xxii, xxvii, 175, 185, 203–42, 245–59, 274–304, 306–8, 318, 325–64, 368, 515–17, 531
Colossi 336, 348–9, 368–9, 376, 378–80, 402, 412, 416, 421, 428, 447, 515
Fish analysis 291–5, 334–6, 380
Probable Word method 222, 299, 517
and teleprinter signals 288–95, 310, 340
cryptography xvii, xxx, 185, 203–42, 245–59, 274–304, 306–8, 318, 325–64, 368, 515–17
Baudot-Murray code 288, 340, 354, 502
Delilah (speech encipherment project) 343–64, 369, 370, 372, 413, 426, 435, 460, 475, 517
Enigma machine see under Enigma machine section
one-time principle 205, 311
periodic polyalphabetic cipher 209
RCA speech cipher 309, 310, 313, 318
Rockex 340, 354, 369, 503
speech encipherment 309–18, 338, 343–64
Typex 208, 209, 328, 329
X-system 311–14, 338, 344, 357, 358, 369, 372
CSAW (Communications Supplementary Activities Washington) 306, 430, 520
Cunard Line 147
cybernetic tortoises 562, 591
Cybernetics 507–9
cybernetics movement 507–9, 518, 661
cycling 20, 27–8, 56, 74, 114–15, 191, 202, 261, 263, 272, 341, 349, 350, 434, 487, 497–8, 499, 617
Cypher Policy Board 435, 460
Czechoslovakia 199, 593
Czüber 113
D
Daily Mail 635
Daily Mirror 301, 351
Daily Telegraph 437
Dalton, Hugh 465
Darwin, Charles (evolutionist) xv, 101, 475, 541
Darwin, Charles Galton 383–5, 419–30, 437, 439–44, 449, 458, 459, 460, 462–3, 466, 468, 471–4, 485, 489, 496, 513
The Next Million Years 592
David, Robin 593
Davies, Donald W. xvii, 463
Davis, Ben 60, 63
Davis, Martin xvii
Dayton, Ohio xxiii
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard 106–7
definite method 117, 120, 126, 130, 132, 133, 136, 140, 142, 152, 408, 519
delay lines 395–6, 403, 404–5, 408, 412
Delilah (speech encipherment project) xxiii, 343–64, 369, 370, 372, 413, 426, 435, 460, 475, 517
Delphinus 58
Denning, Norman 236
Denniston, Alastair 186, 188, 192, 203, 257
Department of Atomic Energy 440
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) 419, 423, 427, 429, 462, 472
Design for a Brain 591
determinism 83, 101, 123, 137, 138–40, 365, 367, 381, 455, 475, 483, 521, 543, 556, 579, 646
dielectric constant of water 123
Dien Bien Phu, battle of 643
Difference Engine 373
differential analyser 197, 316, 376, 397, 449
differential equations 51, 111, 197, 343, 372, 384, 415, 462, 563, 600, 646
digital computing 371
Dinard, France 21, 609
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice 79, 103, 178, 623, 624
discrete-state machinery 365, 483, 509, 526–8, 530, 533, 534
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) 516, 543
Dollis Hill, London 285–6, 291, 299, 309, 348, 359, 364, 427, 435
Don Karlos 191
Donegal, Ireland 69
Dönitz, Karl 244, 250, 283, 362, 577
Donnelly, Desmond 636
Dorset, England 27
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Edward John Barrington, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu 635, 638, 644, 671
Downing College, Cambridge 203
Draft Report on the EDVAC 380, 382, 383, 396, 399, 431
draughts 557, 563, 601
Dresden, Germany 190, 331
Drosophilae 87
Dublin, Ireland 7, 317
Dudley, H. W. 309
Duffers Society 71
Duffy, Roy 560
Dulles, John Foster 643
Dunn, C. W. 590
E
Eachus, Joe 306
East African colonies 458
Eastcote, London 486
Eastman Kodak 306
Ebermannstadt, Germany 392–3
Eccles, David 637–8
Eckert, John Presper 377, 380, 395, 412, 446, 520, 551
economics 94
Eddington, Arthur 78, 79, 84, 85–6, 112–13, 116, 138, 178, 320, 365, 454–5, 521, 522, 556
‘Fundamental Theory’ of physics 571–2
The Internal Constitution of the Stars 52, 66
The Nature of the Physical World 45, 52–3, 66
Science and the Unseen World 645
Edinburgh University 111
Edison and Swan Electric Light Company 73
EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) 472, 502, 511–12, 552, 602
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Calculator) 380, 382–3, 385, 398, 399, 402, 403, 405, 410, 430, 431, 442, 446
Edward VIII, king of the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Emperor of India 154–6, 166, 178, 387
Edwards, Alan xxv
Egypt 303, 304
Einstein, Albert 75, 107, 111, 149, 320, 334, 629
photo-electric effect 84
theory of relativity 43, 44, 68, 153, 469, 645, 646
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler 150, 165, 183, 467
Eisenhower, Dwight David ‘Ike’ xv, 297
electric multiplier 175–8, 185, 196, 375, 376
electromagnetic relays 176, 284, 297, 316, 375, 376
electronic counting machine 335, 369
electronics 284–5
electrons 84, 284, 623
Elizabeth I, queen of England and Ireland 191
Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms xxiv, 467, 573
Ellis Island, New York, xxii, 305, 693
embryology 541–8
Emmet, Dorothy 522
Empress of Canada 319
Empress of Scotland 318–19, 321, 343
Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften 193
England Arise! 389
English Civil War 3
English Electric 426, 461
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) 377–83, 384–5, 398, 407, 410, 417, 421, 430, 436, 437, 444, 459
Enigma machine xviii, xxviii, 187–8, 192, 200, 204, 208, 209–59, 210, 223, 225, 273–308, 318, 325, 328–30, 338, 413, 475, 515, 669
core-positions 213
cribs 226, 227–8, 230, 232, 248, 253, 274, 283, 307
female letters 218–20
German air force (Luftwaffe) 233, 234, 239–40, 242, 252
German navy xxii, 217–18, 235, 237, 246, 249–53, 273–83, 329
German security service 221, 235
ground-setting 216, 218
ring-setting 213
wirings 214–15
Entscheidungsproblem 137, 141–5, 159, 169, 267, 368, 470
Eperson, D. B. 43, 47, 49, 56, 67, 164
Equuleus 58
Erewhon 95, 455, 480
Ethiopia 187, 608
Euclid 44, 45, 87, 103, 105–6, 170
Euler, Leonhard 153, 501
Eureka 267
Europa liner 173
Evans, Christopher
The Mighty Micro 672
Evening News 444
Exeter 567, 617
extra-sensory perception 523–4
F
fags (servants) 29, 31, 76
Farley, Jim 180
Faster than Thought 602
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 306, 627, 639
feedback, theory of 314
feminism 173, 186, 650
Fermat, Pierre de 153
Fermat’s Last Theorem 120
Ferranti Ltd 494, 500, 503, 562, 633
Ferranti computer 491–6, 500–7, 548, 550–2, 554, 557, 558–9, 567, 656
Festival of Britain 562, 566
Feterlain 186
Ffestiniog, Wales 35
Fibonacci numbers 261, 352, 542, 547, 551, 600
Field, The 4
Fillingham, Colonel 293
Finistère 613
Finland 234, 342
fir cones 261, 353, 542, 547, 551, 620
Fish (cryptanalysis) 291–5, 334–6, 380
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer 248
FLOATCODE 602
floating-point numbers 408, 411, 462, 503, 602
Flowers, Thomas Harold 285, 286, 333, 335–6, 364, 391, 392, 398, 412, 422
Foreign Office 5, 185, 208, 258, 295, 298, 328, 419, 594, 644
formalism (mathematics) 228, 535
Forrester, Jay Wright 445
Forster, Edward Morgan 91, 95, 321, 389, 391, 487, 489, 564, 629, 644, 652, 656, 659, 660–1
Maurice 100, 389
fortune tellers 20, 625
FORTRAN 602
Foucault pendulum experiment 68
Founder’s Feast 98
Four Colour Theorem 116
Four Square Theorem 120
Fourier analysis 170, 349, 352
Foveran, Aberdeenshire 3
Fowler, Alex 313–14
Fowler, R. H. 123
Fox, Leslie 397, 432
France 200, 308, 643
Collège de France 144
Dien Bien Phu, battle of 643
Dinard 21
Enigma machine 233
Lascaux Caves 499
Nancy 497, 507
Rouen 20
secret service 215
Sorbonne 7
Vignolles 233
Frankel, S. 382
Frankfurt University 113
Fraser Harrison, J. 593
free enterprise xv
free will 83, 137, 365, 367, 381, 556, 599
Freeman-Thomas, Freeman, 1st Marquess of Willingdon 21
Freeman-Thomas, Marie, Marchioness of Willingdon 21
Freemasons 88
Frege, Gottlob 107, 108, 117, 270
Grundlagender Arithmetik 107
frequency analyser 359
Freud, Sigmund 99
Friedman, William 313, 315, 318
Friends Ambulance Unit 464
fruit-flies 87
Fuchs, Klaus 629, 631
Furbank, Nicholas 489, 490, 499, 500, 522, 561, 609, 618, 619, 673
G
Gabor, Dennis 434
Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor 565
Galilei, Galileo 526, 595
Galilei-Newtonian laws 43, 44, 45
Gambier-Parry, Richard 339, 360, 435
gambling 89
games, theory of 267–70, 273, 469
Gandy, Robin
meets AMT 234
as wartime colleague 342, 343, 350, 351, 352, 359, 360, 363, 434, 446
at Cambridge 467, 467–70
as friend, student and logician 480, 489, 499, 500, 518, 522, 534, 539, 553, 561, 563, 571, 575, 578, 584, 601, 603, 604, 605, 607–9, 610, 616, 618, 619, 623, 649, 655, 657, 667, 674
Garland, Rodney
The Heart in Exile 613
Garner, Alan xxv–xxvi
gastrulation 543–8, 545
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich 78, 107, 153, 170, 476, 656
Four Square Theorem 120
‘gay’ 565; see also sexuality
Gay Liberation Front 673
Gayhurst Manor, Buckinghamshire 240
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) xv, xxiii, 486, 516, 551, 584, 626, 631
Geiger counters 285
Geneva conference 661
geodesic motion, law of 44
geometry 105
George V, king of the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Emperor of India 140, 154, 582
George VI, king of the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Emperor of India 155, 573
Germany xvi, 39, 173, 188–9
1933 Reichstag fire 173
1934 Night of the Long Knives 115
1936 remilitarisation of the Rhineland 140
1938 Anschluss 183; Munich conference 190; Kristallnacht 190
1939 occupation of Czechoslovakia 199; Ribbentrop-Molotov pact 200; sinking of HMS Rawalpindi 237
1940 invasion of Norway 238; Battle of Narvik 239
1941 Allied capture of Krebs 250; Allied capture of U-110 252; invasion of Soviet Union 259, 275
1942 capture of Tobruk 292; Dieppe Raid 296; Battle of Stalingrad 296; Allied capture of U-559 303
1943 surrender at Stalingrad 317, 325
Afrika Korps 304
Beobachter Dienst 238, 300, 319, 325, 326, 328, 329
Dresden 190, 331
Ebermannstadt 392–3
Europa liner 173
Göttingen 54, 79, 111, 115 151, 179, 317
Holocaust 320
Luftwaffe 233, 234, 237, 238, 239–40, 242, 252, 259, 278, 280, 325
Naval Post Office 237
Navy 187, 237, 246, 238, 252, 308
Nazism xvi, 111–12, 113, 114–15, 140, 178, 188–9, 190, 320, 331–2, 375, 455, 658, 660
Schwarzwald 87
Security Service (SD) 220, 234
Wehrmacht 233, 300
Gervis, H. S. 49, 67
Gibraltar 63–4
Gide, André xix
Giffard, John Anthony Hardinge, 3rd Earl of Halsbury 551, 563, 672
Gladstone, William Ewart 387
Glass, S. J. 590
Gleason, Andrew 306, 446
Glennie, Alick E. 554, 602, 603
Glorious, HMS 238, 436
Gneisenau 238, 280
Go (game) 156, 163, 267, 314, 331, 558
God Save the King 563
Gödel, Kurt 118–20, 131, 140, 142, 147, 149, 151, 155, 158, 159, 169, 266, 534, 605, 679
Gödel’s theorem 139, 166, 180–3, 228, 301, 411, 453, 454, 476, 521, 522, 528, 623, 660
Godier, Mme 20
Gold, Thomas 412, 472, 646
Goldbach’s conjecture 120
Goldstine, Herman Heine 377, 446, 671
Golla, Frederick Lucien 591
Golombek, Harry 286, 292, 294, 333
Good, Irving John 249
Good, Jack 257, 267, 268, 270, 287, 333, 334, 348, 379, 393, 428, 432, 453, 486, 487, 518, 671
Probability and the Weighing of Evidence 433
Goodwin, E. T. ‘Charles’ 397, 424, 432
Göttingen University, Germany 54, 79, 111, 115, 151, 179, 317
Government Code and Cypher School (GC and CS) xviii, xxii, 185–8, 200, 202–6, 221–304, 327, 329–37, 347–9, 354, 362, 390, 391, 427, 474, 481, 531, 640, 653
origin 185–6
baffled by Enigma machine 187–8
AMT joins 188, 192
evacuated to Bletchley Park 202
helped by Poland 200, 214–17, 221
development of Bombes 220–32
AMT allocated Hut 8 to work on naval Enigma 235–8
work on Luftwaffe Enigma 239–40
Bombes come into operation 240
work on naval Enigma 246
capture of Krebs, naval Enigma deciphered 249–52
U-110 captured 252–3
irrelevance of official rank 256–7
German naval meteorological cypher broken 274
letter to Churchill to request more staff 276–9
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German naval Enigma changes system 280–3
AMT becomes chief consultant 287
work on ‘Fish’ 290–2
breaking of Enigma in African theatre 296
capture of U-559 303
installation of ‘Robinsons’ 335
introduction of Colossi 336–7, 348–9
Bletchley park museum xxii
Grantchester, Cambridge 123
gravitation 79, 624
Green Bay Tree, The 95, 588
Greenbaum, Franz xxvi, 605–7, 611, 615, 618, 625
Greenbaum, Maria 612
Greenbaum, Mrs 612, 625
Greenwich Village, New York 314
Griffith, R. J. 340, 341
group theory 104–5, 121, 123, 160, 164–5, 356, 519, 555, 623
word problem for groups 519, 555, 623
Growth and Form 261, 542
Grundlagender Arithmetik 107
Guggenheim, Victor 556
Guildford, Surrey 33, 51, 63, 78, 87, 113, 145, 160, 259, 264, 273, 435, 553, 583, 584, 615, 618, 641
gypsy fortune tellers 20, 625
H
Haeckel, Ernst 620
Haggard, Marianna 9
Haggard, Rider King Solomon’s Mines 9
Haile Selassie I, emperor of Abyssinia 608
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson 508
Hall, Philip xxix, 80, 121, 156, 158, 165, 183, 184, 185, 554, 586, 595, 667, 668
Hall, Radclyffe
Well of Loneliness, The 100
Hall, William Reginald ‘Blinker’ 185
Halsbury, Lord see Giffard, John Anthony Hardinge
Halsey, R. J. 364
Hamlet 42, 510
Hampton, London 397
Hanslope Park 339–64, 373, 383–4, 387, 391, 393, 396, 417, 426, 435
Hardy, Godfrey Harold ‘G. H.’ xvi, 78–9, 117, 120, 123–5, 149–50, 153, 161, 172, 194, 197, 249, 320, 381, 386, 392, 498, 619, 629, 644, 649, 653, 656
Pure Mathematics 75
theory of numbers 153
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the d’Urbervilles 261
Hare and Hounds Club 469, 486
Harris, Arthur 29, 70, 76
Harris, David 70, 76
Harrison, Kenneth 80–1, 94, 96, 102, 110, 114, 121, 198, 199
Harrow School 557
Hartree, Douglas Rayner 197, 384, 385, 397, 418, 421, 429, 430, 437, 438, 441, 556
Harvard University 376, 444
Harwich, Essex 190
Havelock Ellis, Henry 99, 100, 577
Hayling Island, Hampshire 200
Hazelhurst School, Kent 10, 14–19, 524
Heart in Exile, The 613
Heatley, Norman 56
Heisenberg, Werner Karl 101, 102
Uncertainty Principle 85, 455, 521, 542
Hell’s Angels 74
Hemans, Felicia Casabianca 19, 319, 524–5
Hemlock and After 614
Henry V 341
Henry, Joseph 177
Herald Tribune 313
Hershey bars 298, 331
Hewlett-Packard 359
Hicks, Joynson 91, 660
Hicks, Steve 677
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