THE SECRET WORLD OF CODES AND CODEBREAKING

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• Dr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge
• Tuesday 23 June 2009, 11:00-12:00
• Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kerstin Enright.

Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org

Ever since the ancient Greeks, people have been using secret codes to keep their communications private. James Grime will be unraveling some of these ciphers and explaining how mathematicians have changed the course of history by cracking codes. He will demonstrate a genuine WW2 Enigma Cipher Machine and explain how the British code breakers at Bletchley Park managed to achieve the apparently impossible by unlocking the infamous Enigma Code.

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