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Growth and Form
(D’Arcy Thompson)
207–8
,
430
Guggenheim, V.
441
Guildford, Surrey: Turings move to
25
;
as home from school
39
,
44
,
49
,
58
;
AMT visits from Cambridge
88
,
109
,
114
,
126
;
in war
206
,
216
; runs to
346
;
visits from Manchester
439
,
463–4
,
488
,
490
,
509
;
cremated near 528
Gypsy fortune-tellers
15
,
496
Haeckel, E.
492
n,
493
Haggard, Rider
6
Haldane, J. B. S.
150
n,
403–4
Hale, Cheshire
157
; AMT lodges at
395
,
414
Hall, Admiral ‘Blinker’
146
Hall, Philip
62
,
94
,
123
,
130
,
144–6
,
440
,
466
,
473
Halsbury, Lord
438
,
447
Halsey, R.J.
290
Hanslope Park: AMT at
270

316
;
revisits
345
;
ambience of
270–2
,
279–80
,
286
;
see also
Delilah
Hardy, G.H.
60
,
117–8
;
contact with AMT
117
,
155
, note
2.11
;
compared with AMT
118
,
396
,
440
,
492
,
521
;
quoted on mathematics
61
,
93–4
,
120
,
135
Hardy, Thomas
207
Harris, Arthur J.M.
22
,
54
,
59
Harris, David E.B.
54
Harrison, J. Fraser, AMT judged by
471–2
Harrison, Kenneth P.
62
,
73–4
,
79
,
85
,
88
,
94
,
156–7
Hartree, D. R.:
and differential analyser
155
,
306
,
335
;
and ACE
306
,
307
n,
333
,
335
,
342
,
347–8
,
355
,
357
,
407
;
and Manchester computer
341
;
and Cambridge computer
342
,
351
Harvard University: relay calculator at
299
,
300
,
302
,
306–7
,
408
;
AMT attends conference at,
353
,
356
Hazelhurst (prep. school)
7
,
10
;
AMT at
10–9
,
416
headmasters
see
Nowell Smith; Boughey
Heatley, Norman G.
43
Hilbert, David
60
,
252
;
quoted
60
,
135
,
472
,
520
;
and foundations of mathematics
82–4
;
Hilbert programme
90–4
;
Hilbert space
80–1
;
see also Entscheidungs problem
Hilton, Peter J.
227
,
231–3
,
240
,
412
Himmler
254
Hiscocks, E. S.
307
,
335
n,
355
,
368
hockey
11
,
121
,
128
,
142
Hodge, W. V. D.
341
Hodgkin, Dorothy
410
Hogben,
Lancelot
73
,
120
,
124
,
303
Hogg, Peter
48
,
52
,
54
,
58

9
Hollerith machinery
see
punched cards
‘Hollymeade’, AMT’s Wilmslow home, life at
426–8
,
444
,
452–5
,
480
,
484
,
490–1
Home Guard
231–2
Home Office, Secretaries
71
,
497
,
504–5
homosexuality
see
sexuality
Hooson, Emlyn, AMT accused by
471–2
hormones, sexual
26
,
405
; treatment with
467

474
,
476
,
486
,
505
,
505
n
Hoskin, N. E.
440
Hotelling, H.
344
housemaster see O’Hanlon, G.
Huskey, Harry D.
355
,
365
,
367
,
372
Hut Eight (GC and CS, Bletchley Park):
AMT starts naval Enigma
186
,
188–9
;
develops new statistical methods
196–7
;
more staff
195
,
198
,
227
;
1941 successes
198

201
,
217–9
;
relations with Navy
187–8
,
201–2
;
AMT as organiser
204
,
227
;
complaints to Churchill
220–1
;
U-boat Enigma lost
224–5
;
Mediterranean war
234
;
Hugh Alexander takes over
227
,
262
,
268
;
marred victory
262–3
Huxley, Aldous
see Brave New World
Hydra
435
,
444
hydrogen bomb
302
n,
413
,
510
,
519
,
526
IAS (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): before war
86
,
117
;
computer at
342–3
,
355–6
,
367
n,
390
n,
413
IBM
243
,
299
,
391
n
Ibsen
74
,
494
Iconoscope
321
,
343
,
356
,
413
imaginary numbers
see
numbers
imitation game
266
,
415
,
417
index register (on computers)
393
n
India, Indian Civil Service
2

5
,
15–6
,
25
,
369
indicators (in cipher systems)
164
,
171
,
173
,
185
,
327
information, mathematical theory of
250
,
410–1
Ingham, A. E.
62
,
130
,
133
inquest, on AMT’s death
488
Institute for Advanced Study
see
IAS
Institution of Radio Engineers
347
,
352
instructions, instruction tables:
and Turing machine
106–8
,
125
,
292–5
;
and Colossus
277
,
301
;
and Babbage
297–8
,
302
;
and ENIAC
302
;
internal storage of
302–3
;
and ACE
318
,
320–8
;
modification of
324
,
359–60
;
then see under
programming
integers
see
numbers, theory of; Peano axioms
intelligence, human, concept of discussed
362–3
,
424–6
intelligence, machine
see under
brain
Intelligence, Military, British
see under
GC and CS;
also
secret service (for MI6); security service (for MI5)
Intelligent Machinery
(AMT’s 1948 NPL report)
377–86
,
388
,
416
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
(Russell)
81–5
iodine, iodates
18
,
22
,
39
,
51–2
,
56
,
76
Ireland: AMT’s mother and
3
,
4
,
16
,
132
;
holidays
53
,
67
Irvine, Lyn
see
Newman, Lyn
Italy, communications of
147–8
,
187
,
262
,
268
Jabberwocky
(Carroll)
66
‘James’
see
Atkins, James H.
Japan, communications of
147–8
,
234
Jeans, J.
40
,
49
,
51
Jefferson, G.
404–6
,
423
,
438–9
,
450–2
Jeffries, John R. F.
161
,
182
‘Joan’see Clarke, Joan
Johnson, S. Neville
373–4
,
387
,
396
,
426
,
464–5
,
491
,
503
Jones, R. V.
177–8
,
204
,
423
Jones, W. T.
136–7
,
142
Jowett, Lord
505
n
Jung, C. G., Jungian psychology
480
,
481
n,
515
,
520
K-ray lighting system
56
,
114–5
Karl (refugee boy)
150–1
Keen, H. (‘Doc’)
181
,
227
,
262
n,
267
Keen, R. (‘Dick’)
272
Kendrick, A. M.
147
,
195
Keynes, J. Maynard
70
,
87
,
94
,
369
;
moral philosophy of
70–1
,
137
,
309
,
499
,
518
,
524
Kilburn, T.
390
,
392
,
398
,
409
King’s College, Cambridge:
scholarship to
57–9
;
AMT resident at
59

115
,
133–6
,
149–59
,
370–89
,
396–7
,
446
;
rows for
62
;
Studentship, Fellowship at
88
,
94
,
144–5
,
290
,
370
,
395
,
397
,
453
,
466
;
moral and social ambience
70
,
74
,
78
,
87
,
126–7
,
149
,
371
;
as hall of heresy
483
,
500
,
509
,
524
;
links with GC and CS
147
,
161
;
web of connections with
155
,
186
,
198
,
209
,
230
,
264
,
273
,
442
Kinsey, A. C.
459
,
461
Kirwan, Evelyn W.
(née
Stoney) (aunt), and family
4
,
6
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