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Evening News
352
evidence, weight of
197
,
250
,
265–6
,
344
,
410
n
examinations: Common
Entrance
18

20
;
at Sherborne
26
;
School Certificate
31–2
;
Higher Certificate
36–8
,
50–1
,
58
;
Cambridge scholarship
42

44
,
55
,
57
;
Cambridge degree (‘Tripos’)
60–1
,
67
,
88
;
AMT is ‘B-star Wrangler’
88
;
doctorate, Princeton
131
,
145
;
AMT as examiner
145
,
152
,
482–3
Exeter
450
,
490
extra-sensory perception
416
Faster than Thought
(Bowden)
478–9
FBI
242
,
498
Fellowship
see under
King’s College
Ferranti
393
,
397
,
399
,
438
,
441
n,
446
,
502
n
Festival of Britain
446
,
449
,
540
Fibonacci numbers
see
numbers
Finistère
(Peters)
486–7
fir cone
208
,
281
,
430
,
435
,
494
First World War: AMT as boy in 7;
reaction against
70
,
87
,
253
;
ciphers in
146
,
191
‘Fish’ (German cipher machine system)
228–30
,
266–7
,
276–8
,
302
,
312
;
see also
Colossus
Fisher, R. A.
197
floating-point numbers
see
numbers
flowers
see
plants; daisy
Flowers, T. H.
226–7
,
265
,
267–8
,
290
,
311–2
,
317
,
328
,
336
,
341–2
Foreign Office
146
,
205
,
234
,
472
n;
communications of
165
,
236
,
262
;
see also
GC and CS
formalism (in mathematics)
91
,
425
Forrester, J. W.
354
Forster, E.M.
70–1
,
73
,
78
,
254
,
310
,
388
,
511–2
,
518
,
520
,
524
four colour theorem
90
n,
341
,
341
n
Fourier theory
134
n,
278
,
278
n,
280
Fowler, Alex D.
249
Fowler, R.H.
95
Fox, Leslie
316
,
344
France: AMT likes
10
,
14–6
,
18
;
role in Enigma
157
,
170
,
185
,
191–2
,
194
;
AMT in liberated Paris,
311–2
;
holidays and saga-ettes
386
,
396
,
428
,
448
,
484–6
Frankel, S.
304
‘Fred’,
see
Clayton, F. W.
free-will
see
determinism
Freemasons, AMT sheds light on
68
Frege, G.
83–4
,
91
,
215
Freud, S., Freudian psychology
77
,
459
Friedman, W.
248
,
250
,
252
Friends, Society of
see
Quakers
Fuchs, K.
499

500
,
506
Furbank, P. N. (Nick)
388–9
,
397
,
415
,
446
,
483
,
490–1
,
496
Gabor, D.
345
Galileo
33–4
,
418
,
472
Gambier-Parry, R.
270
,
287
,
346
games: mathematical theory of
212–3
,
373
;
see also
chess; draughts; Go; poker; Psychology; hockey; Presents
Gandy, Robin O.: meets AMT
186
,
272–3
;
as wartime colleague
279–80
,
287
,
289
,
345
,
355
;
at Cambridge
371
,
373
,
381
,
386
,
388
;
as friend, student and logician
396–7
,
411
,
428
,
441
,
446
,
453
,
459
,
476–7
,
479
,
480
,
482–5
,
489–91
,
494–6
,
512
;
writes of AMT
516
,
520
,
522
gastrulation
431–3
,
437
Gauss
60
,
83
,
93
,
134
,
378
‘gay’
448
n;
see
sexuality
GC and CS (Government Code and Cypher School, at Bletchley Park 1939–1945):
origin
146–7
;
AMT joins
148–9
;
baffled by Enigma
(q.v.)
147–8
,
151
helped by Poland
(q. v.)
157–8
,
175–6
moves to Bletchley
160–1
;
Enigma solved by Bombes
(q. v.)
176

185
;
problems of success
191–2
;
AMT takes naval Enigma in Hut Eight
(q.v.)
186–7
;
is ‘creative anarchy’
203–4
;
has intellectual life
210–7
;
Churchill’s role
205
,
219

221
,
240
;
1942 crisis
222
,
228
;
AMT as chief analyst
228
,
236–7
;
coordination or lack of
217–8
,
260–2
;
relations with USA
235–6
,
244
,
260–3
;
and battle of Atlantic
(q.v.)
201
,
217
,
263
;
electronics at
225–7
,
231
,
263
,
267
;
deadly secrecy of
237–40
,
289
; and computer plans
292
,
294
,
329
,
331–3
,
336
;
post-war references
369
,
374
,
382–3
,
410
n,
448
n;
see also
GCHQ
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters)
386
,
409
,
438
,
464
,
496
,
502
n,
507–8
genetics
67–8
,
384
,
429
,
431
,
466
see also
DNA
geometry: axioms of
41
,
82
;
also
90
,
118
,
161
,
195
George V, King
109
,
121
,
462
George VI, King
122
,
338
,
455
Germany: AMT visits
52
,
67
,
88

90
,
311–2
, note
8.46
;
anticipates war
with
138
,
144
;
refugees from
86
,
150–1
,
480
;
communications of
see
Enigma; ‘Fish’;
precursor of computer in
298–9
;
see also
Nazism; Second World War; Atlantic, battle of
Gervis H. S.
37
,
52
; Mrs Gervis
20
Gibraltar
48–9
Gillett, Miss
10
,
51
Glass, S.J.
468–9
Gleason, Andrew M.
243
,
355
Glennie, Alick E.
440–1
,
478
Glorious
(ship)
189
Gneisenau
(ship)
189
,
222
Go, game of
116
,
128
,
212
,
249
,
264
,
443
Gödel, K.
92
,
111
,
115
,
117–8
,
133
;
incompleteness of mathematics
92
,
102
,
125
,
131
,
133
,
142–4
,
495
;
significance of this, if any
109
,
144
,
360–1
,
378
,
414–5
,
419
,
523
,
540
Godier, Mme
14
Gold, T.
328
,
375
,
411
,
512
Goldstine, H. H.
300
,
355
Golia, F.L.
469
Golombek, Harry
227
,
231–3
,
265
Good, I.J. (Jack):
and naval Enigma
198
,
204
,
227–8
;
and chess machines
212–4
,
265
,
360
;
and ‘Fish’
266
,
277
,
301
;
writes on probability
344
;
speculates with AMT
386–8
,
391
n,
411
Goodwin, E. T. (‘Charles’)
316
,
337
Göttingen, AMT visits
89
Government Code and Cypher School
see
GC and CS
Government Communications Headquarters
see
GCHQ
Great War
see
First World War
Greece
486
; Greek
22
,
25
Greenbaum, Franz
480–2
,
485
,
488
,
491
,
496
;
Greenbaum, Hilla and Maria
485–6
Grey Walter, W.
411–2
,
446
,
469
,
469
n
Griffith, R.J.
271
groups, algebraic theory of
81
;
and AMT’s pre-war work
94–5
,
118
,
123
,
126
,
129–31
;
and ciphers
81
n,
172
,
283
;
and computers
293
,
341
;
and word problems
412
,
441
,
495
;
and physics
81
n,
495
n
growth, biological
12–3
,
207
;
AMT’s theory of
429

437
,
444–5
,
447
,
466
,
476
,
492–4
;
see also
hormones

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