FLASHCARDS: The Alan Turing Story: Cracking Codes, Facing Injustice

FLASHCARDS: The Alan Turing Story: Cracking Codes, Facing Injustice

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flash­card Fri­days at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry!, where we explore the beau­ti­ful, messy, bril­liant evo­lu­tion of human thought. I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak, and today I’m briefly cov­er­ing the life of a man whose mind helped save mil­lions of lives and lay the ground­work for the dig­i­tal age we live in. He cracked codes, he chal­lenged the norms, he made

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Daniel Shiu on The Mathematical Legacy of Bletchley Park

Daniel Shiu on The Mathematical Legacy of Bletchley Park

MATH SCIENCE HISTORY TRANSCRIPTS GABRIELLE:Wel­come to Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! I have a spe­cial episode today that includes an inter­view with Daniel Shiu, where we dis­cuss his lat­est arti­cle, The Influ­ence of Bletch­ley Park on UK Math­e­mat­ics, which was pub­lished in the Tay­lor and Fran­cis jour­nal, Cryp­tolo­gia. It is such a won­der­ful arti­cle about Bletch­ley Park and the eclec­tic indi­vid­u­als that

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