Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park • Hacker News Board

Re: Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park

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Post by hetman » Tue, May 28, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #11

mrzasa wrote: post #10

Don't forget about people who were breakine enigma 'before it was cool', and they succeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_%28cryptography%29 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski .

True, but this story has nothing to do with Engima.

Not entirely. The article does make some inaccurate claims about the cracking of the Enigma.

Re: Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park

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Post by filereaper » Wed, May 29, 2013, 1:00 AM UTC

kenrose wrote: post #15

I was fortunate enough to hear Dr. Tutte give a talk in one of my undergraduate classes. It was Fall 2001 and I was a lowly undergrad at UW taking Math 249, the "advanced" requisite combinatorics course. I believe Dr. Tutte was a professor emeritus at the time and came to campus about once a week. Since our class was small, our prof asked us if we'd like to have Dr. Tutte give a talk. To be honest, I'd never heard ab…

As another UW Math/CS Alumni. I think one of the reasons the Combinatorics and Optimization department is so strong is because mathematicians like Dr. Tutte laid down the foundations so very well in the early days.

Re: Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park

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Post by ggchappell » Wed, May 29, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

Interesting. I'm familiar with Tutte's work in graph theory & matroid theory. I had no idea he'd been at Bletchley Park. He seems to have done an awful lot of very significant work.