Nile river 6
Niles, Blair
Strange Brother 589
Nim (game) 557, 562
Nineteen Eighty-Four 534, 660, 663–4
non-numerical problem 417
Nonconformism 496
normal numbers xxxi
Normandie 185, 188
Normandy campaign 349, 350, 362
North Atlantic Treaty 627
Norton, Harry 117
Norway xviii, 238–9, 298, 599–600, 604
Lofoten Islands 249
Nottinghamshire 4
Novikov, Pyotr Sergeyevich 623
Nowell Smith 27, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 479, 592, 628
Noyce, Wilfrid 487
Nuffield Foundation 587, 597
numbers
binary numbers 175–8, 371, 402–3
complex numbers 170, 179, 314, 349, 352
computable numbers 128, 130–40, 143
Fibonacci numbers 261, 352, 542, 547, 551, 600
floating-point numbers 408, 411, 462, 503, 602
imaginary numbers 106, 170
normal numbers xxxi
prime numbers xv–xvi, 170–1, 194, 500, 511, 512
rational numbers 129–30
real numbers 106, 128
theory of numbers 153, 169–72; see also Riemann unsatisfactory numbers 132, 463
numerical analysis 396, 468, 600
Nyquist, Harry 314
O
O’Hanlon, Geoffrey 27, 31–2, 34, 39, 41, 42, 63, 69, 70, 72, 76, 87, 669
Obama, Barack xv
Observer, The 497, 617
oestrogen 589–90, 592, 597
Officers Training Corps 32, 35
Okkels, H. 637
Olaf V, king of Norway 298
Olympic Games 486–7
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures 374
one-time principle 205, 311
Operational Intelligence Centre (OIC) 236, 237, 239, 254, 255, 325
Oppenheimer, Robert xvi, 643
ordinal logics 181–2, 267, 453, 536
Ordinal Logics 536
organo-therapy 595–7, 598, 612, 656–7
Orwell, George 11–12, 390, 457, 629, 633
Nineteen Eighty-Four 534, 660, 663–4
Road to Wigan Pier, The 389
oscillation 544
oscilloscopes 359
OTC camp 69, 75
Our Fighting Navy 112
Owl Service, The xxv
Oxford 23
Oxford University 111, 144, 151, 674
Corpus Christi College 5
Mansfield College 206
New College 154
Oxford Union 90
P
pacifism 90, 112
Pandy, Wales 243
Pasteur, Louis 22, 553
Patton, George Smith 391
Pauli, Wolfgang 161
Pauli Exclusion Principle 648
Pauling, Linus 516
Peacock, Thomas Love
Melincourt 489
Peano, Giuseppe 107
Peierls, Rudolf Ernst 377
Peirce, Charles Sanders 247, 248
Pembroke College, Cambridge 67
Pendergrass, James T. 430
Penrose, Roger xxi, 646, 673
periodic polyalphabetic cipher 209
perspective drawing 66
Peters, Fritz Finistère 613
Petrov, Aleksei Zinovyevich 646
Petrov, Vladimir 644
Philippines 338
photo-electric effect 84
phyllotaxis 600
physical Church–Turing thesis xxi
Pi π 128
Piaget, Jean 604
Pigou, Arthur 94, 121, 234, 263, 337, 487, 660
Pilgrim’s Progress, The 13, 648
Pirani, F. A. E. 646
Pitts, W. 382, 431, 508
Podanur, Madras 6
Poker 268
Poland 93, 199–200
Enigma machine 213, 214–22, 226, 238
Warsaw conference 200
Polanyi, John 611
Polanyi, Michael 521–2, 523, 527, 530, 542–3, 544, 579, 596, 604, 658
Popper, Karl 521
Popplewell, Cicely 505–6, 555, 562, 585
Porgy (teddy bear) 114, 121
Port Said, Egypt 303
Portmadoc, Wales 272
positrons 103
Post Office Research Station 285–6, 291, 299, 309, 340, 341, 348, 359, 364, 390, 391, 412, 422, 427–8, 435, 461, 473, 513
Post, Emil 159, 519
Potsdam Conference 391
Powell Dyffryn 63
Presents (game) 500
Price, Francis 154, 163, 180, 460
Prigogine, Ilya 586
Prime Number Theorem 171
prime numbers xv–xvi, 170–1, 194, 500, 511, 512
Princeton University 111, 122, 141, 143, 144, 148–52, 154, 156–7, 160, 163–8, 174–5, 180, 184, 268, 272, 446, 448, 462
Carnegie Lake 148, 162
Fine Hall 149
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) 111, 148–9, 165, 183, 520
Mathematical Club 157
treasure hunts 163, 180, 189, 206, 499
Principia Mathematica 109, 117, 194
Pringle, John 518, 586
Prinz, Dietrich G. 555
Probability and the Weighing of Evidence 433
probability 85, 113, 189, 228, 232, 246, 262, 267–70, 273, 333, 432–3, 435, 469, 505, 567
Probable Word method 222, 299, 517
Proceedings 142, 143, 158, 169, 563
Programmers’ Handbook 503–4, 536, 557
Project X 311–14, 338, 344, 357, 358, 369
Pryce, Maurice 55, 122, 149, 160–1, 163, 166, 168, 189, 201, 392, 554
psychoanalysis xxvi, xxx, 605–7
Psychology (game) 163, 469
psychology 99, 137, 365, 508, 558, 589; see also behaviourism
public schools 28–31, 478–80
anti-intellectualism 90
Common Entrance examination 19, 25
corporal punishment 72
fags (servants) 29, 31, 76
and sexuality 37–8
university entrance scholarships 54
Victorian reforms 30
punched cards 178, 179, 249, 277, 374, 397, 403, 501, 505
pure mathematics 79, 102–10, 113, 116–20, 122, 153, 195–6
Pure Mathematics 75
Put Out More Flags 332
Pythagoras 130
Q
Quakers 84, 112, 113
Relief Action 190
quantum electrodynamics 160
quantum theory xxi, 52–3, 79, 83–6, 102, 104, 112, 122, 123, 153, 365, 392, 483, 543, 556, 624
Quebec agreement 643
Queen Elizabeth 304, 305, 318, 445
Queen Mary 168
R
radio communication 204
Radio Security Service 339
Radiolaria 620, 621
Radley, W. G. 336, 364, 427
Rajchman, J. A. 445
Ramanujan, Srinivasa 554
Ramsey, Frank 117
Ramshaw, Mrs 202–3, 350, 603
random number generator 506
Randell, Brian 671
Ratio Club 518–19, 587, 599, 646
rational numbers 129–30
Raubgraf (U-boat line) 326
Rawalpindi, HMS 237
RCA 404, 445
RCA Radio Tube Manual 319
RCA speech cipher 309, 310, 313, 318
Reading without Tears 11
real numbers 106, 128
Red Flag, The 389
Rees, David 428
‘Reform of Mathematical Notation, The’ 271, 603
Reichstag fire 173
Reith Lectures 548
relativity, theory of 43, 44, 68, 153, 161, 469, 525, 645, 646
relays, electromagnetic 176, 177, 284, 297, 316, 375, 376
religion 35–6, 83, 84, 88, 89, 95,
101, 146, 265, 388, 511, 605, 658
Rhine, Joseph Banks 524
Rhineland, Germany 140
Rhode Island, USA 168, 308
Ribbentrop–Molotov pact 200
Richards, Bernard 620
Richmond, Surrey 342
Riemann, Bernhard 153, 170–2, 178, 179
Riemann zeta-function 178–80, 196–9, 350, 371, 372, 396, 514–15, 518
Riemannian geometry 150
Rising Tide of Colour Against White World-Supremacy, The 39
Road to Wigan Pier, The 389
Roberts, Keith 467, 469, 499, 561
Robertson, Howard Percy 161, 646
‘Robin’ see Gandy, Robin
Robin, Harold 361
Robinsons (electronic counting machines) 335, 369, 505
Rock, Cornwall 63
Rockefeller Center, New York 305, 340
Rockex 340, 354, 369, 503
Roehm, Ernst 115
Rohwer, Jürgen The Critical Convoy Battles of 1943 668
Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen 295, 296, 297, 300
Room 40 185, 186, 188, 241, 250, 255, 274
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 163, 180, 308, 325
Ross, A. H. Trelawny 38–40, 42, 46, 533
Rosser, John Barkley 149, 151, 169
Rotterdam, Netherlands 4
Rouen, France 20
Routledge, Norman xix, xxix, 468, 497, 599, 609
Royal Air Force (RAF) 200, 208, 235, 236, 242, 280, 362, 469
Royal Albert Hall, London 139
Royal Army Medical Corps 6
Royal College of Science, Dublin 168
Royal Flying Corps 339
Royal Naval College, Greenwich 601
Royal Navy 185, 208, 235–9, 240–1, 245, 253, 254, 275, 325–8
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 240, 245, 266, 278, 348, 362
Royal Society 22, 429, 468, 491, 494, 495, 552–3, 554, 597, 617
Computing Laboratory 491–6, 552
Proceedings 142, 143, 158, 169, 563
Rózycki, Jerzy xxvii
Rugby School 292
running, AMT’s passion for xvii, xxv–xxvi, 72–4, 434–5
Russell, Bertrand 107–10, 117, 150, 172, 270, 301, 320, 456, 526, 552, 629, 659, 660
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy 105, 110
Principia Mathematica 109, 117, 194
Russian Empire 185, 186
Rylands, George 467
Ryle, Gilbert
The Concept of Mind 526
S
St Albans, Hertfordshire 200
St Christopher 65
St John’s College, Annapolis 180
St Lawrence Seaway 551
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex 9–11, 387–8
St Michael’s School 11, 12, 14
St Saviour’s Church, London 8
Salmon and Trout Magazine 4
Sand, K. 637
Sark, Guernsey 76, 87
Saunderstown, Rhode Island 308
Sayers, Dorothy 475, 489
The Mind of the Maker 265
Sayre, David 516
Scharnhorst 238, 280, 338
Schiller, Friedrich
Don Karlos 191
Scholz, Heinrich 157, 192, 272, 669
Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften 193
School Certificate 41
Schrödinger, Erwin 52, 85, 101, 102, 111
What is life 543
Schwarzwald, Germany 87
Science and the Nation 458
Science and the Unseen World 645
Science Museum, London 68, 139, 562
Science News xvii, 623
Scotland 3, 10, 14
Secret War, The 671
sequential analysis 433
set theory 107–10, 116–20, 270
sexual guessing game 523, 533
Sexual Offences Act (UK) 671–2
sexuality, homosexuality xiii, xviii–xix, xxiii–xxv, 146, 161–4, 301–2, 352, 355, 388–90, 466–7, 499, 565–7, 604, 611–14, 651–4, 661, 671–3
and Cold War politics xxiv, 626–45
at King’s College 95–6, 98–101
legal and medical response xxiii–xxiv, 575–93, 595–7, 598, 605, 607, 612, 656–7
in Manchester xxiv, xxv, 540
and Nazism 116, 320–1
in New York 314
at public schools 37–8
and US military xviii
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet 42, 510
Henry V 341
The Tempest 331
Shannon, Claude 314–16, 333, 345, 387, 446, 453, 517–18, 526
Shaw, George Bernard 92, 95, 261, 387, 455, 475, 534, 629, 656, 659
Back to Methuselah 92, 95, 101, 161, 164, 182, 201, 334, 455, 525, 535
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 552–3, 657
Shenley Brook End 202, 243, 433, 603
Sheppard, John xxvii, 121
Sherborne School, Dorset 27, 28–59, 89, 121, 367, 480, 537, 609–10, 674
corporal punishment 72
Duffers Society 71
Girls’ School 49
OTC camp 69, 75
Quatercentenary appeal 564
Westcott House 27, 29, 31, 63, 68, 70–2
Shirburnian, The 669
Sierpiński, Wacław Franciszek 80
Sigint 330, 362, 370
Silent Punkah-Wheel 6
Simpson, Buckinghamshire 339, 361
Simpson, Wallis 154–6
Singapore 280
Sinkov, Abraham 208, 211
SIS 186
sixth form 41
Skewes, Stanley xxxi, 172, 196
Slade School of Art, London 50
Small Back Room, The 359–60, 531
Smith, R. A. 439–40
Smith’s Prize 145
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs xxv, 189
socialism 387, 389, 455–6
Society and the Homosexual 579
Socrates xxx
Sorbonne, France 7
Soul of Man under Socialism, The 455–6
South Carolina, USA 180
Soviet Union xxiii, 93, 112, 173, 199, 458, 459, 486, 522, 627, 629, 642, 658, 660
1920 Polish-Soviet War 93
1929 revolution 93
1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov pact 200
1942 Battle of Stalingrad 296
1943 German surrender at Stalingrad 317
1949 atomic bomb test 520
1953 atomic bomb test 642–3
Spanish Civil War 187, 222
Special Communications Unit No. 3 (SCU3) 339–64
speech encipherment xxiii, 309–18, 338, 343–64
spinor calculus 623
Stalin, Joseph 259, 612–13, 642
Stalingrad, battle of 296, 317
starfish 541–2
State Department 631
states of mind 134, 136, 137, 333, 364, 367, 382, 396, 451
statistics 113, 248, 257, 291, 306, 335, 350, 499, 505, 517, 567, 597
Stead, Christopher 156
Stephenson, William Samuel 305, 340, 627
Stibitz, George Robert 376, 377, 410
Stoddard, Theodore Lothrop Rising Tide of Colour Against White World-Supremacy, The 39
stone, paper, scissors 268
Stoney family, origins of 6
Stoney, Edward Crawford 6
Stoney, Edward Waller (grandfather) 6, 7, 8, 15
Stoney, George Johnstone 22, 284, 553
Stoney, Richard 6
Stoney, Sarah (née Crawford) (grandmother) 6
Stoney, Thomas 6
Stoney, Thomas George 6
Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire 332
Stopford, John 586
Strachey, Christopher 556–8, 562, 563, 601–2
Strachey, Lytton 186
Strachey, Oliver 186, 556
Strachey, Ray 186, 556
Stratford-upon-Avon 81
Strauss, E. B. 608
sub-routines 503�
�4, 512
Sunday Dispatch 631
Sunday Empire News 435
Sunday Express 100, 661
Sunday Pictorial 579, 580, 591, 631, 634
Sunderland Grammar School 470
Swan Electric Light Company 73
Swan, Joseph 50
Swan, Mollie 62
Sweden 251
Sydney Sunday Telegraph 639
Symposium on Large Scale Digital Calculating Machinery 445, 447–8
T
Tangabudra bridge 6
Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram 376
Technische Hochschule, Zurich 51
Teddington Hall, London 397, 460
teddy bear 114, 121
Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) 284, 285, 427–8, 430, 439, 440, 444, 518
teleprinter signals 288–95, 310, 340, 501, 502
Temperance movement 24
Tempest, The 331
Tess of the d’Urbervilles 261
Tester, Major 291
Thames river 6
Theosophy 89
thermodynamics 83, 601
Thomas, H. A. 461, 462, 468, 512, 513
Thompson, D’Arcy 17, 261, 262
Growth and Form 261
Three Men in a Boat 42
Through the Looking Glass 85, 93–4
tide prediction 179–80, 197–8
Tiltman, John Hessell 257
Times, The 57, 58, 437, 449, 486, 510, 511, 667
Tipperary, Ireland 6
Titchmarsh, Edward Charles 178, 179, 197
Tizard, Henry 494
Tobruk, Libya 292
Tolstoy, Leo 387, 598–9, 656, 659
Anna Karenina 598
War and Peace 598
Tootill, G. C. 491, 493–4, 501, 503, 506–7
topology 116–20, 122, 150, 556
Toulmin, Stephen 607
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 173
Traitors, The 629
Travis, Edward 224, 245, 257, 276, 281, 333, 340, 419, 430, 457, 473, 551
treasure hunts 163, 180, 189, 206, 499, 616
Treaty of Versailles 111
trigonometry 342
Trinity College, Cambridge 4, 50, 54–7, 92, 117, 160
Trollope, Anthony 360, 536, 656
Trustram Eve, Herbert (uncle) 4, 12
Trustram Eve, Jean (née Turing) (aunt) 4–5, 12
tuberculosis, bovine 60, 72
Tunbridge Wells, Kent 10
Turing, Alan Mathison xii–xiii
1911
conceived in Coonoor, India 8
1912
born in London 8–9
1913–1915
lives with Colonel and Mrs Ward in St Leonards-on-Sea 9–10
1916–1917
lives with mother in St Leonards-on-Sea, attends Anglican church 10–11
teaches himself to read 11
1918
sent to St Michael’s school to learn Latin, has trouble writing 11, 12
visits the Trustram Eves at Christmas 12–13
1919–1921
father returns to England, holiday in Ullapool, Scotland 14
parents return to India, stagnates in St Leonards and becomes unsociable 14
1921
mother returns, teaches him in London 14
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