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People
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Organizations
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Events
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Narrative text / article excerpt (part of house oversight production)
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Summary
This document appears to be a page from a historical narrative or article included in a House Oversight production (likely identified via the footer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015901). The text details the history of the Enigma machine, its initial rejection and subsequent adoption by the German military, and the early life and academic achievements of mathematician Alan Turing, including his work at King's College, Cambridge.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Alan Turing | Mathematician / Code Breaker |
Subject of the biography; described as the man to lead the task of breaking Enigma for the English.
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| Arthur Scherbius | Inventor |
Inventor of the Enigma machine.
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| Rommel | Military Commander |
Ordered the German Army and Navy to deploy modern coding machines.
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| Hilbert | Mathematician |
Referenced regarding the 'Entscheidungsproblem' puzzle.
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Organizations (8)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Polish Intelligence Bureau | ||
| German Army | ||
| German Navy | ||
| Sherborne |
School Alan Turing attended in Dorset.
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| King’s College, Cambridge |
Where Turing studied Mathematics and became a Fellow.
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| British Intelligence | ||
| French Intelligence | ||
| American Intelligence |
Timeline (3 events)
1936
Publication of 'On Computable Numbers and their Application to the Entscheidungsproblem'
Cambridge
1943
Polish mathematicians waiting to hear about German advance on Warsaw.
Warsaw
Polish mathematicians
Relationships (1)
Turing went on to study Mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge and was made a Fellow at only 22.
Key Quotes (2)
"The man to lead the task of breaking Enigma for the English was Alan Turing."Source
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"In 1936 Turing, aged 24, published On Computable Numbers and their Application to the Entscheidungsproblem... one of the most influential mathematical works of the 20th century."Source
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