Search Results

Advanced Search

1 to 1 of 1 results

Sort by:

Filter by:

Contributors

Article Types

Authors

Bombes, Cribs and Colossi

R.O. Gandy, 26 May 1994

Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park 
edited by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp.
Oxford, 321 pp., £17.95, August 1993, 0 19 820327 6
Show More
Show More
... be trivial but not difficult enough to cause a nervous breakdown.’ For this and other methods, Alan Turing developed a highly original form of statistical theory which made it easy to calculate the relative weight of evidence supporting various hypotheses. The most fruitful tool for code-breaking was a ‘crib’: a piece of clear text believed to ...

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences