Alan Turing: The Enigma (131 page)

Moore, G. E.
137
,
153

Moore School (University of Pennsylvania)
300
,
342–3
,
353
{see also
ENIAC. EDVAC)

Moorehead, Alan
499

Moral Science Club, Cambridge
85
,
89
,
136
,
372

Morcom, Christopher C.
35
–
45
;

after death
46
–
53
,
62–3
,
67
,
70
,
75–6
,
108
,
152
,
374
,
381

Morcom, Mrs (Christopher’s mother)
38
,
42
,
46
–
53
,
55
,
59
,
62–4
,
67
,
70
,
75
,
115–6
,
208

Morcom, Reginald (Christopher’s father)
38
,
51
,
53
,
63
,
116

Morcom, Rupert (Christopher’s brother)
38
–
40
,
44
,
48–9
,
51
,
76
,
116
,
368

morphogenesis
see
growth; plants; daisy; fir cone

mountain-climbing
17
,
26
,
216
,
269
,
387
,
389

Mountbatten, Earl
261–2
,
347–9
,
369

Muggeridge, Malcolm
163
,
210
,
237–8

multiplier, electric relay
138–40
,
146
,
148
,
155
,
251
,
299
,
328

Murray, Arnold
449–50
,
452–5
,
456–8
,
463
,
471–3
,
537

mushrooms
279–81
,
490

Nancy, France
395
,
403

Nanny Thompson
6
,
9

National Bureau of Standards (USA)
316

National Physical Laboratory
see
NPL

National Research Development Corporation
438
,
447

National Security Agency (USA)
507–8
;

see also
CSAW

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know
(Brewster):

on machine model
13
,
96
;

on brain
17
,
28
,
266
,
291–2
;

on sex, chemicals and growth
11–2
,
18
,
26
,
429–31
,
435
,
467

Nature
(journal)
347
,
357

Navy, British: ‘Our Fighting Navy’
87
;

and origin
of GC and CS
146
;

intelligence, lack of
187–90
;

reaction to Enigma decryption
200–2
,
218–9
,
260–2
;

communications of
165
,
260–2
;

see also
Merchant Navy

Navy, US
218
,
222
,
234–6
,
299
;

see also
CSAW

Nazism
86
–
90
,
140
,
150
,
253–4
,
264
,
348

Nelson, G. (English Electric)
339

nerves
see under
brain

Neumann, John von
see
von Neumann

‘Neville’
see
Johnson, S. N.

New Hampshire
128

New Statesman
73–4
,
87
,
140
,
193
,
308

New York City
116
,
128
,
242
,
245
,
249
,
253

New York Times
501
n

Newman E. A. (Ted)
395

Newman, Lyn (Lyn Irvine)
396
,
472
,
475
,
485
,
516–7
,
519
, 528

Newman, M. H. A. (Max):

and mathematics at Cambridge
90
–
94
;

and
Computable Numbers
109
,
111–3
;

collaborates with AMT
215–6
;

role at Bletchley
230–1
,
266–8
,
277
;

and origin of ACE
307
,
408
;

starts Manchester computer
340–2
,
344
;

offers AMT post
372
,
276
;

at Manchester
390
,
394
,
396–8
,
406–7
,
438
,
441

discusses machine intelligence
415
,
450–1
;

and trial
464–6
,
472
;

as biographer
531
, note 2.
38

News of the World
474

News Review
403–4

‘Nick’
see
Furbank, P. N.

Nietzsche
308

Nim, NIMROD
442–3
,
446

Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Orwell)
424
,
526

Norfolk, C. 1.
306

Norway, Norwegian: in war
189–90
,
198
;

AMT and Kjell
476
,
479
,
483
,
503

Novikov, P. S.
495

Nowell Smith, C.
20
,
22
,
24
,
26
–
30
; and Mrs Nowell Smith,
20

Noyce, Wilfrid
387
,
387
n

NPL (National Physical Laboratory):

as organisation
305–7
,
338–9
;

AMT joins
307
,
316
;

resigns
376–7
;

revisits
407
,
483
;

computer development at
see under
ACE

NRDC (National Research Development Corporation)
438
,
447

NSA (National Security Agency, USA)
507–8
;

see also
CSAW

Nuffield Foundation, conference of
466

numbers: theory of numbers
133–5
;
(see also
Riemann)

binary numbers
138
,
299
,
320–1
,
398–9
;

complex numbers
82
,
134
,
141
,
152
,
249
,
278
n,
280
,
299

computable numbers
100
,
102
,
124
,
133

Fibonacci numbers
207–8
,
281
,
430
,
435
,
437
,
477

floating-point numbers
325
,
367
,
400
,
478

imaginary numbers
82
n

prime numbers
61
,
134–5
,
156
,
397–8

rational numbers
100–1

real numbers
82
,
100
,
124
,
316
,
451

numerical analysis
316
,
337
,
344
,
355
,
372

Nyquist, H.
248–9

OBE (Officer of British Empire)
338
,
472
,
472
n

O’Hanlon, Geoffrey
20
,
23
–
25
,
30–2
,
47–8
,
53–5
,
59
,
67–8
,
532
n

OIC (Operational Intelligence Centre, Admiralty)
188–9
,
191
,
202
,
244
,
260

Olympic Games
386–7

On Computable Numbers … see Computable Numbers

one-time pad cipher
162
,
164
,
284
;

see also
Vernam

Oppenheimer, J. Robert
511

optics
333
,
406

ordinal logics, numbers
131
,
142–4
,
157
,
212
,
360

‘organotherapy’
467–74
,
476
,
486
,
505
,
505
n

Orwell, George (pseud.)
7
–
8
,
310
,
363
,
424
,
503
,
526–7

Oxford
17
,
216
,
346
,
450

pacifism
see
war

paper tape, teleprinter
228–9
,
231
,
267
,
270
,
321
,
334
,
398–9
,
409
,
482
n

Paris
311–2
,
386
,
428
,
448
,
484–6

Parliament
158
,
160
,
458
n,
501
,
504–6

patents, in AMT’s name
355
, note 6.
36

Pauli, W.
126
; exclusion principle
514

Peano, G., Peano axioms
83
,
92

Pierce, C. S.
197

philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein’s
153–4

philosophy of science: AMT’s
418–9
;

see also
levels of description; determinism

phyllotaxis
476
;
see also
numbers, Fibonacci

pi, AMT calculates
35
,
100

Piaget, J.
480

Pigou, Arthur C.
73
,
94
,
186
,
209
,
269
,
387
,
389
,
524

Pilot ACE
407–8
,
442
,
444

Pitts, W.
252
,
304
,
343
,
404

plants
11
,
207–8
,
232
,
281
,
430
,
434–5
,
437
,
439
,
476–7

plugboard,
of Enigma
169–70
,
178

poker
213
,
373–4
,
382
,
388

Poland, and Enigma
157
,
170–6
,
179
,
374

Polanyi, John
485
n

Polanyi, Michael
414–5
,
419
,
421
,
431
,
480
,
523

Popplewell, Cicely
401–2
,
441
,
447
,
465

Post, Emil
125
,
412

Post Office Research Station (Dollis Hill, London):

role at Bletchley
226–7
,
231
,
267
,
311
;

and speech encipherment
237
,
245
,
286
,
290
,
346
;

role in ACE
328
,
336–7
,
340
,
349
,
350
,
355
,
366
,
376
,
408