trips to Oxford and Wales 23
moves to Guildford, Surrey 33
coaches Alan in English for School Certificate 42
proud of Alan’s progress 54
holidays in Donegal 69
has prostate operation 113
death 464–5
Turing, Robert 4
Turing, Robert Fraser, 8th Baronet 4
Turing, Sybil 5, 563, 572
Turing Bombe 226–32, 227, 229, 237, 240, 249, 253, 266, 278, 279–80, 297–304, 318, 329, 368, 371, 406, 413
Turing family
Lay of the Turings 3–4
motto 3, 625
origins of 3
Turing Hydra 560
Turing machine 123–40, 142–5, 152, 177, 197, 266, 364–8, 481, 603, 666
states of mind 134, 136, 137, 145, 364, 367, 382, 451
Turing zeta-function machine 197, 368, 371, 372, 490, 668, 675
Turingismus 291–2, 334
Turochamp 488
Tutte, William Thomas 290, 417
Twinn, Peter 192, 204, 243, 245
twistors, theory of 673
2001: A Space Odyssey xxxi, 670
types, theory of 270–2, 446, 603, 623
typewriters 124–5
Typex 208, 209, 328, 329
U
U-boats 236, 241, 244–54, 273–6, 280, 288, 296, 300, 303, 305, 306–8, 318, 325–6, 329, 330, 362
Raubgraf 326
U-33 238, 250
U-110 252
U-559 303
Ulam, Stanisław Marcin 165, 184
Ullapool, Scotland 14
Ultra Secret, The 671
Underhill, Francis 162
United Kingdom
1642–1651 English Civil War 3
1660 Restoration 3
1688 Glorious Revolution 6
1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act 577
1911 National Insurance Act 8; Official Secrets Act 8
1924 general election 186
1926 general strike 27–9
1936 abdication of Edward VIII 154–6, 178, 387
1938 Munich conference 190
1939 Warsaw conference 200
1942 Beveridge Report 383, 387
1943 Quebec agreement 643
1945 Potsdam Conference 391
1946 Anglo-American Loan Agreement 465
1947 recession 465
1948 Olympic Games 486–7; Criminal Justice Act 591, 592
1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean 631–2
1952 atomic bomb test 643
1967 Sexual Offences Act 671–2
Admiralty 185, 208, 235–9, 241, 245, 253, 254, 275, 300, 328, 396, 412
Atomic Energy Authority 637
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment 551
British Empire 3, 4, 6, 458
class 11–12
Conservative party 478
Covenanters 4
Cypher Policy Board 435
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 419
East African colonies 458
Foreign Office 5, 185, 208, 258, 295, 298, 328, 419, 594, 644
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) xv, 486, 516, 551, 584, 626, 631
Inland Revenue 21
Labour Party 186, 243, 386, 389
MI5 626
MI6 186, 639
Ministry of Aircraft Production 302
Ministry of Defence 494
Ministry of Supply 384, 422
National Health Service (NHS) 565
National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) 551, 563
Naval Intelligence Division 235–9
Royal Air Force (RAF) 200, 208, 235, 236, 242, 280, 362, 469
Royal Navy 185, 208, 235–9, 240–1, 245, 253, 254, 275, 325–8
SIS 186
Treasury 186–7, 424, 462
War Cabinet 312, 338
War Office 594
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 240, 245, 266, 278, 348, 362
United Nations 462
United States xxiv, 122–3, 147–8, 152, 156–7, 279–80, 296–8, 305–18, 330–1, 338, 419, 458, 486
1941 enters World War II 280
1942 Battle of Midway 296
1943 Quebec agreement 643
1946 Anglo-American Loan Agreement 465; Atomic Energy Act 494, 637
1952 Immigration and Nationality Act 597
1954 atomic bomb test 643
Air Force 569
Annapolis 180
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 627, 631, 639–40, 661
Communications Supplementary Activities Washington (CSAW) 306, 430, 520
Electrical Engineering Departments 419
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 306, 627, 639
Mississippi 174
National Bureau of Standards 396
National Development and Research Commission 377
National Security Agency (NSA) xv, 639
Navy 275, 280, 296–8, 306, 318, 331, 376, 430
New Hampshire 163
New York 162–3, 305, 314, 340
Rhode Island 168, 308
Senate 180, 626, 631
South Carolina 180
State Department 631
Virginia 180
War Department 312
Washington D.C. 180
Yellowstone National Park 7
Unity of Science 607
UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer) 551
Universal Turing Machine xvi, 131, 197, 368–73, 380–3, 394–5, 404, 405, 406, 407, 452, 463, 479, 485, 489, 514
Universe around us, The 66
University College Exeter 567
University Grants Committee 472
University of Göttingen 54, 79, 111, 115, 151, 179, 317
University of Leicester 539
University of Pennsylvania 377, 430
University of Toronto 551
unsatisfactory numbers 132, 463
Use of Dots as Brackets in Church’s system, The 272
Uttley, A. 439–40, 518
V
V-weapons 317, 362
vanadium 54
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie 154
Venona project xxiii
Vernam, Gilbert 310
Vernam cipher 288, 310, 340
Vienna Circle 180
Vienna, Austria 190, 331
Vietnam 643, 661
Vignolles, France 233
Virginia, United States 180
Vocoder 309–11, 344, 364
voice (AMT’s high pitched) 32, 80, 97, 264, 314, 316, 553, 572
von Neumann, John xvii
VP2623 (German patrol boat) 239
Vulpecula 58
W
Waddington, Conrad Hal 542, 600
Waismann, Friedrich 180
Wakefield, Rhode Island 168
Wald, Abraham 433
Wales 23, 243
Criccieth 499
Ffestiniog 35
Portmadoc 272
Walsall Grammar School 164, 343
Walsh, Bernard 350, 434
Walter, William Grey 518, 562, 591
Walton Athletics Club 434, 497
War and Peace 598
Ward, Hazel 9, 563
Ward, Joan 9
Wardlaw, Claude Wilson 600
Warrington Lodge, London 8
Washington, D.C. 180
Watson, Alister 139, 172, 193, 460, 623
Watson, James 516, 543
Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire 20
Waugh, Alec
The Loom of Youth 28, 36, 37, 38, 168, 577
Waugh, Evelyn
Put Out More Flags 332
Weaver, Warren 377, 380
Webb, Mrs 537–8, 547, 586, 617
Webb, Roy 537–8, 586, 617, 572
Wehrmacht 233, 300
weight of evidence 247–8, 253, 289, 315, 333, 335, 367, 489, 517
Welch, Denton 609
Welchman, W. Gordon 203, 226, 229, 230, 233,
241, 245, 279, 295, 338, 354, 428
welfare state 383, 387, 459
Well of Loneliness, The 100
Wellington College 249
Wells, Herbert George ‘H. G.’ 570
Wesley, Alan 351, 352, 363
Westcott House 27, 29, 31, 63, 68, 70–2
Westwood, Gordon 592
Society and the Homosexual 579
Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo 149, 150, 157, 158
What is life 543
Wheatley, Denis 189
Wheeler’s, Soho 350, 434
White, F. P. 143
Whitehead, Alfred North 109, 429
Principia Mathematica 109, 117, 194
Whitehead, John Henry Constantine 116, 555
Whitemore, Hugh Breaking the Code xix
Whitman, Walter ‘Walt’ xxxii, 8, 162
Wiener, Norbert 430–1, 445, 497, 507–9, 518, 526, 659, 669
Cybernetics 507–9
Wilde, Oscar 100, 577, 585, 604, 614, 635
The Ballad of Reading Gaol 272
The Soul of Man under Socialism 455–6
Wildeblood, Peter 635
Wilkes, Maurice Vincent 197, 430, 441–2, 446, 447, 461, 471–2, 501, 512, 556, 559
Wilkinson, James Hardy 424, 432, 444, 460, 468, 473, 513
Wilkinson, Patrick 192, 203, 342
Williams, Denis 114–15
Williams, Evan 63, 64
Williams, Frederic Calland 428, 430, 439–40, 447, 449, 459, 461, 468, 472, 485, 491–4, 496, 500, 504, 516, 520, 556
Willingdon, Lord see Freeman-Thomas, Freeman
Wilmslow, Cheshire 537, 604
Wilson, Angus 564
Hemlock and After 614
Wilson, Colin 596
Wilson, Mary 341, 352
Wimsey, Lord Peter 475
Winchester 189, 249
Winchester College 42, 80
Windsor, David 155
Winn, Rodger 254, 275, 307
Winterbotham, Frederick William 240
The Ultra Secret 671
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 117, 172, 190, 193–6, 199, 271, 531, 539, 569, 642, 644, 658
class on Foundations of Mathematics 193–6
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 173
Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes 603
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville xxx
Wolfenden, J. F. 661
Wolfenden reforms 671
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 240, 245, 266, 278, 348, 362
Womersley, John Ronald 383–6, 396–8, 419–22, 426–9, 438, 440, 441–2, 444, 447, 461–2, 471–2, 473, 513–14, 603
Woodger, Joseph Henry 424
Woodger, Mike 424, 431, 432, 459, 460, 550, 557, 559, 671
Woolwich Arsenal, London 385
word problem for groups 519, 555, 623
World War I 4, 10, 12, 39, 112, 185, 188, 235, 236, 275, 319, 362, 363
Room 40 185, 186, 188, 241, 250, 255, 274
Zimmermann telegram 185
World War II xv–xvi, 201, 234–304, 305–21, 325–31, 362–3
1939
sinking of HMS Rawalpindi 237
1940
German invasion of Norway 238
Battle of Narvik 239
1941
Allied capture of Krebs 250
Battle of Matapan 235
Allied capture of München, Lauenburg and U-110 252
German invasion of Soviet Union 259, 275
Atlantic Charter 279
United States enters war 280
1942
German capture of Tobruk 292
Battle of Midway 296
Dieppe Raid 296
Battle of Stalingrad 296
Allied capture of U-559 303
Operation Torch (Allied invasion of French North Africa) 304, 305
1943
Casablanca Conference 308, 325
German surrender at Stalingrad 317, 325
1944
Normandy campaign 349, 350, 362
1945
VE Day 363
Potsdam Conference 391
Wylie, Shaun 154, 163, 180, 189, 249, 257, 260, 273, 354, 393, 488
Wynn-Williams, Charles Eryl 284, 285, 286, 329, 336
X
X-ray crystallography 383, 516
X-system 311–14, 338, 344, 357, 358, 369, 372
Y
Yellowstone National Park, USA 7
Young, John Zachary 522, 548–50
Yugoslavia 486
Z
zero-sum games 268
zeta-function 178–80, 196–9, 350, 371, 372, 514–15, 518, 668, 675
Zimmermann telegram 185
zodiac 572
Zuse calculators 375
Zuse, Konrad 375, 410
Zygalski, Henryk xxviii
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