Alan Turing: The Enigma (133 page)

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and Hanslope
270–1
;
and CIA
498
,
507
secret service (French)
170
security risk, homosexuals defined as
254
n,
497–8
,
500–3
,
506–7
Security Service (British) (MI5)
270
,
497
,
502
self-reference
84
,
103
,
215
;
see also
Godei; types, logical; self-reference
Senate, United States
142
,
497–8
,
501
sequential analysis
197
,
202
,
204
,
231
,
266
,
344
,
474
n
sets, theory of
83–5
,
90–1
,
95
,
215
sexuality, homosexuality:
as natural wonder
12
;
at public schools
27–9
,
77
,
158
,
461
;
as first love
35

45
;
pre-war desires
57–8
,
62
,
75–8
,
115
,
122
,
127
,
129
,
132–3
,
136
,
193
,
440
;
liberal King’s College ambience
74
,
78
,
371
;
broken wartime engagement
206
,
216
,
264
;
post-war desires
282–4
,
309
,
370–1
,
373–4
,
386
,
396–7
;
AMT as man in the street
428–9
,
448–50
,
452–5
,
519
;
legal and medical reaction
458–63
,
467–73
;
raised consciousness
475—6
,
480–2
,
484—7
;
and politics of insecurity
254
n,
500–6
and feminism
516–8
Shakespeare
32
,
405
Shannon, Claude E.
250–1
,
274
,
308
,
355
,
360
,
410–1
Shaw, George Bernard
72
,
74
,
78–9
,
127
,
207
,
266
,
308
,
417
,
424–5
Shelley
439
,
521
Shenley (near Bletchley): AMT lodges at
160
,
264
,
279
;
silver bars at
193
,
279
,
344–5
,
479
Sherborne
School:
AMT cycles to
20–1
;
finds unscientific
21–3
;
is reported upon poorly at
24–6
;
studies Einstein at
32–4
;
is redeemed by Christopher
35
;
AMT is prefect of
54
;
is praised for loyalty to
59
;
revisits
69
,
484
;
recalls
132
,
158
,
369
,
381
,
427
,
447
;
compares with trial
473
Sierpinski, W.
62
Sigint
see
GC and CS
silver bars
193
,
279
,
344–5
,
479
Sinkov, A.
165
,
167
Skewes, S., Skewes number
135
,
154
Smith, R. A.
349–50
Smith’s Prize, Cambridge
114
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
149
,
489
socialism
308
,
362
,
527
;
see also
Labour party
sociology
130
,
384–5
,
460–1
sonnets, appreciation of, lack of
29
,
405–6
,
423
Soviet Union
71–3
,
280
;
communications
147
;
computers
387
;
see also
Cold War
Spain
48–9
;
communications in
147–8
,
176
speech, AMT’s manner of
24
,
61
,
68
,
209
,
249
,
396
speech, encipherment of
236–7
,
245
;
then see
X-system; Delilah
spinors
495
,
495
n
Spirit: AMT on nature of
63–4
;
related to Eddington
64–6
;
and to Shaw’s Life Force
78
;
also as Morcom hymn
76
;
other references
108
,
362
see also
after-life; religion
spying
see
secret service; CIA
stack (for sub-routines)
326
n
statistics
see
probability
Stead, Christopher
122
Stephenson, William
see
BSC
Stibitz, G.
299
,
326
Stoney, origins of family
3
,
16
Stoney, Edward Waller (grandfather)
3

5
,
11
Stoney, George Johnstone
16
,
225
,
317
,
439
Stoney, Sarah
(née
Crawford) (grandmother)
3
Stopford, J.
465–6
storage, for computer:
general problem
295
,
302–3
,
314–5
,
319
,
321
,
334
,
384–5
;
see also
delay line; cathode ray tube; magnetic core; magnetic drum; magnetic tape
Strachey, Christopher
442–3
,
446–7
,
477–8
Strachey, Oliver and Ray
147
,
442
Strange Brother
(Niles)
468
n
Strauss, E. B.
483
n
strikes, general
20
; anti-war
71–2
sub-routine
325–6
,
367
,
400
,
401
n,
407
,
446
suicide
129
,
452
,
487

492
,
520
Sunday Dispatch
501
Sunday Empire News
346
Sunday Express
77
,
525
n
Sunday Pictorial
460–1
,
469
,
502–3
Sunday Times
525
n
Swan, Joseph
38
Switzerland
10
,
387
tables of behaviour
see
instructions; programming
tape, of Turing machine
97–9
;
see also
storage
tape, paper, for teleprinter
228–9
,
231
,
267
,
270
,
321
,
334
,
398–9
,
409
,
482
n
Taylor, G. I.
300
Teddington (London suburb)
305
;
AMT lodges in
317
;
see under
NPL
Telecommunications Research Establishment
see
TRE
telephone, AMT uses neighbours’
427
telephone industry
see
Post Office Research Station; Bell Laboratories;
also
relays
teleprinter, teleprinter tape
109
,
228–9
,
231
,
267
,
270
,
321
,
334
;
at Manchester
398–9
,
409
,
482
n
telescopes
39
,
40
,
44–5
,
48
,
50
,
132
television
109
,
321
n,
382
,
402
,
486
‘Ten Club’ (King’s College)
75
,
371
‘Test Assembly’, for ACE
365
,
372
The Cloven Pine
(F. C.)
264
,
368
,
370
,
458
,
460
,
487
The Green Bay Tree
(Sharp)
74
,
467
The Loom of Youth
(Waugh)
21
,
27–8
,
132
,
458
The Nature of the Physical World
(Eddington)
34
,
40
,
51
,
64–6
The Pilgrim’s Progress
(Bunyan)
9
,
515
The Road to Wigan Pier
(Orwell)
7
,
8
,
310
,
449
The Small Back Room
(Balchin)
286
,
422
Thomas, H. A.
366
,
372
,
407–8
Thompson, D’Arcy
12
,
207–8
,
430
Through the Looking Glass
(Carroll)
66
,
140
n,
482
tides, tide prediction
141–2
,
156
,
158
Tiltman, J. H.
204
Times, The
347–8
,
357
,
386
,
405–6
Titchmarsh, E. C.
141–2
,
155
,
409
Tizard, H.
392
Tolstoy
308
,
475–6
Tootill,
G. C. (Geoff)
390
,
392
,
398–9
,
402
topology
90
,
118
,
341
,
441
,
495
Toulmin, S.
482
, note 6.
50
transistor
391
n,
478
Travis, E.
177–8
,
195
,
204
,
220–1
,
223
,
231
,
265
,
333
,
342
,
376
TRE (Telecommunications Research Establishment)
225–6
,
340
,
342
,
349–50
,
353
,
390
,
411–2
treasure hunts
128
,
142
,
149
,
397
,
489
Treasury
147
,
161
,
337
,
342
,
367
trees, for decisions
213–4
,
293
,
360
,
401
n
Trethowan, Illtyd
406
Trinity College, Cambridge
41–4
,
57
,
71
,
126
Tripos (Cambridge degree)
60–1
,
67
,
88
Trollope
287
,
426
,
475
Trustram Eve, Herbert (uncle)
2
,
8
Trustram Eve, Jean (aunt)
2
,
73
n

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