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The first Enigma code-breaker : the untold story of Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing / Robert Gawlowski.

Author: Gawlowski, Robert, author.

ImprintBarnsley, South Yorkshire ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2023.

Descriptionix, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Birth -- Family and growing up -- Studies in Poznan -- Göttingen and first professional steps -- Warsaw and the break of Enigma -- The best years of life -- Handing on the baton in the relay -- The outbreak of the Second World War -- Arrival in Great Britain -- The time of transition -- Return to post-war Bydgoszcz -- Life in a new reality -- The "staff" and "Targowica" -- Recording and operational case no. 819/56: 'cryptologist' -- The little stabilisation -- I am the one who cracked the machine -- Ne gaspille pas le temps, parce que le temps c'est le matičre dont la vie est faite -- Everyday life and secrets of Enigma.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174) and index.

Note:Examination of how Marian Rejewski changed the course of cryptology by using mathematics and then passed a baton to Alan Turing.



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Author:
Gawlowski, Robert, author.
Uniform Title
Jestem tym, który rozszyfrowal Enigme. English
Title:
First Enigma codebreaker
Subject:
Rejewski, Marian, 1905-1980.
Subject:
Cryptographers -- Poland -- Biography.
Cryptographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- Poland -- Biography.
Enigma cipher system.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Biographies.