The real story of how Enigma was broken - Sir Dermot Turing

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    A recent video featuring Sir Dermot Turing, who is the acclaimed author of "Prof: Alan Turing Decoded", a biography of his famous uncle. It's about the three Poles Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki who were not given the rral recognition they deserved.

     
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    turing neme neda oka mulinma break karanne
    polish ewun oka mulinma break karanne
    This is about the three Polish mathematicians who were not given due recognition - Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki.
    Jerzy Różyck, sadly drowned as his ship sank on his return from N Africa.

    In his book X, Y & Z, Dermot Turing, the great mathematician’s nephew, tells the gripping story of a band of Polish mathematicians who figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did. The Poles shared their secrets with French and British intelligence services before and during the Second World War — the letters X, Y and Z were shorthand for the French, British and Polish code breaking teams, respectively.
    The Polish team was in the business of cracking Russian codes and naturally became involved with the German code breaking too. These three mathematicians started the mathematics and laid the groundwork for Alan Turing to proceed.
    There's certainly no doubt that Alan Turing himself was simply a brilliant mathematician.
     

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    World wars saw introduction of fascinating technologies. Enigma is surely one of them.
    Yes... WWII made advancements in the RADAR technology, The Atomic Bomb and also several advances in medicine.
     
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    Yes... WWII made advancements in the RADAR technology, The Atomic Bomb and also several advances in medicine.

    And jet engines, trans-continental flying.. I'm currently reading on German Panzers and U-Boats. Despite what Hitler has done and how they got defeated, Germany was way ahead of its time.
     
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