Meet the Enigma Machine – An Armistice Day Celebration

This Armistice Day, Courtesy of Government Communication HeadQuarters (GCHQ), the most famous of coding devices, the Enigma machine, will be visiting MathsWorld London.

Join MathsWorld’s Dr James Grime alongside staff from GCHQ’s in exploring the story of Alan Turing and the Enigma machine and look at how cryptography has moved on with the mathematics behind a public key exchange (Diffe-Hellman).

This is a particularly pertinent year for a talk on Engima, as we celebrate the 80-year anniversary of the end of World War II. Alan Turing is best remembered as one of the leading code breakers of Bletchley Park during World War II. It was Turing's brilliant insights and mathematical mind that helped to break Enigma, the apparently unbreakable code used by the German military.

Visitors will have the opportunity to arrive from 18.15 to explore MathsWorld before the event starts at 19.00.

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