Event Details
January 01, 1935
Description
Turing's discovery of a solution to the Decision Problem (Entscheidungsproblem).
Participants (1)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Turing | person | 134 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015909.jpg
This document is a page from a book (page 219, titled 'Turing's Machine') included in a House Oversight document production (Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015909). The text provides a historical narrative regarding World War II cryptography, specifically focusing on the Enigma machine, the film U-571, and Alan Turing's contributions to code-breaking and the 'Entscheidungsproblem' in the 1930s. It details tactics used by the British to decipher German codes, such as exploiting weather reports ('Wetter').
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