The Secret World of Codes and Codebreaking

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• Claire Ellis, Millennium Mathematics Project
• Thursday 26 January 2006, 17:00-18:00
• MR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

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Since the ancient Greeks, people have been using secret codes to keep their communications private. Claire Ellis will be unravelling some of these ciphers and explaining how mathematicians and scientists have managed to change the course of history by cracking codes. She will demonstrate a genuine WW2 Enigma Cipher machine and explain how the British code breakers at Bletchley Park managed to achieve the apparently impossible unravel the infamous Enigma code.

Warning: This talk will prove that mathematicians can be heroes too!

This talk is part of the Millennium Mathematics Project series.

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