Secret Messages
Abstract When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few,” he was referring to the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. However, he could very well have added his own name to the list. Another name that might be added is that of mathematicia...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1999
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117219.003.0019 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52346591/isbn-9780195117219-book-part-19.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few,” he was referring to the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. However, he could very well have added his own name to the list. Another name that might be added is that of mathematician Alan Turing (1912-54)—forthe course of World War II might have been quite different if Turing had not broken the Enigma cipher, which Nazi Germany used to communicate with U-boats in the North Atlantic. Today cryptography is at the center of a debate over national security and individual liberty. |
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