Shaun Wylie
Mathematician
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Shaun Wylie
...messages (such as the names of senior officers, or the phrase "nothing to report") which became useful aides, or "cribs", to start breaking the code. As head of the "crib", Wylie spent much time and effort with the Bletchley "bombe", a...
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Shaun Wylie: member of Bletchley Park code-breaking team
...invited Wylie, then teaching at Wellington College, to join him. In February 1941 Wylie joined Turing's team in Hut 8, working on the Enigma machine used by the German Navy. In the words of Hugh Alexander, Turing's successor as head of Hut...
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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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