Shaun Wylie
Mathematician
W. T. Tutte...the messages sent in this system. In 1948, Tutte received a doctorate in mathematics from Cambridge under the supervision of Shaun Wylie, who had also worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny. From 1948-1962 he taught mathematics at the University... In this article: W. T. Tutte, World War II, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Royal Society, Bletchley Park, Chemistry, Officer of the Order of Canada, Cambridge University, and German Army |
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washingtonpost.com | October 23, 2009
The Daily Goodbye
...way it had back then." One of the talented codebreakers who decrypted the German Enigma code during World War II has died. Shaun Wylie worked with Alan Turing and became head of the "crib" subsection, which was on the lookout for repeated...
In this article: Soupy Sales, World War II, Alan Turing, Empire State Building, New York, and U.S.
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | October 20, 2009
Shaun Wylie
...then built to decipher Tunny, including Colossus, now considered the world's first electronic computer. Shaun Wylie was born on January 17 1913 in Oxford. His father, Sir Francis Wylie, was the first warden of the Rhodes Trust. Educated at...
In this article: Alan Turing, Mathematics, Bletchley, Cheltenham College, Bletchley Park, James Watson, Oxford, and Rhodes Trust
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Erik Christopher Zeeman
...much of his school mathematics while serving for the air force. He received an MA and PhD (the latter under the supervision of Shaun Wylie) from the University of Cambridge, and became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. After working...
In this article: Mathematics, University of Warwick, Rene Thom, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, and Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
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Crispin Nash-Williams
...earning the title of Senior Wrangler in 1953, he remained for his graduate studies at Cambridge, studying under the supervision of Shaun Wylie and David Rees . He continued his studies for a year at Princeton University, with Norman...
In this article: Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Norman Steenrod, Aberdeen, and Random walk
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www.timesonline.co.uk
Shaun Wylie: member of Bletchley Park code-breaking team
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Shaun Wylie: member of Bletchley Park code-breaking team The mathematician Shaun Wylie was one of the leading members of the Bletchley Park code-breaking team of the Second World War as...
In this article: Bletchley Park, Alan Turing, Mathematics, William Tutte, and Second World War
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Shaun Wylie (born 17 January 1913) is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker.
Wylie was born in Headington, Oxford, England, and educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College. He won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied mathematics and classics. In 1934, he went to study topology at Princeton University, obtaining a PhD in 1937 with Solomon Lefschetz as his supervisor. At Princeton he met fellow English mathematician Alan Turing.
During World War II, Turing was at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. Turing wrote to Wylie around December 1940, who was by then teaching at Wellington College, inviting him to work at Bletchley Park. He accepted, and arrived in February 1941. He joined Turing's section, Hut 8, which was working on solving the Enigma machine as used by the German Navy. He became head of the crib subsection, and was a member of a panel of five "bombe controllers" established in mid-1942 to decide how to allocate time on the codebreaking machines.
Wylie transferred in Autumn 1943 to work on "Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher. He married Odette Murray, a WREN in the section. In 1945, soon after the victory in Europe, Wylie demonstrated how Colossus — electronic machines used to help solve Tunny — could have been used unmodified to break the Tunny "motor wheels", a task which had been previously done by hand. While at Bletchley Park, he became president of the dramatic club, and won an unarmed combat competition. He had also played international hockey, for Scotland, but according to fellow codebreaker I. J. Good, he "never mentioned any of his successes".
His son, the late Keith Wylie, a barrister, was a croquet international and open champion of Great Britain.
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