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Mathematics

  • Cracking stuff: how Turing beat the Enigma

    Cracking stuff: how Turing beat the Enigma

    More than 70 years after the Enigma was cracked by Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park, innovative technology housed at The University of Manchester has provided a detailed peek beneath the bonnet of the German wartime cipher machine. A deadly weapon The German Enigma machine was integral in providing the Axis powers with…

  • Turing’s lost letters found in storeroom tidy up

    Turing’s lost letters found in storeroom tidy up

    We all have it – that cupboard, cabinet or even room where we ‘tidy stuff away’ simply so we can forget about it. Who doesn’t have a box left unpacked after every home move that they just shove unopened under the bed? At The University of Manchester, we have our fair share of chocker storage…