Enigma

The way that the filmmakers had to visually make mathematics present was by showing the struggle behind the character’s failures. The first hour of The Imitation Game demonstrates the growing frustration of the team trying to break the enigma code. They try their hardest in every possible way they can, but they do not succeed until Turing miraculously discovers that the machine must be programmed to a word or phrase that it would be able to recognize in most, if not all, Nazi messages…

Since the dawn of sending and receiving messages, people have had a need for keeping the information they send out to remain private and out of the hands of others. This need for security is the reason the field of cryptography was developed, from its early stages of moving letters around in words to the present use of computer programming to keep certain data safe. Cryptography is the reason we can securely use many day to day applications, but with all these developments come issues of…

The movie “the Number 23”, is a chilling movie surrounded around the life of a man named Walter Sparrow. Walter Sparrow throughout the movie displays symptoms of what one might first see as a personality disorder, but in actuality he suffered from memory loss which came from the result of attempted suicide. Walter Sparrow is fighting with his own mind and throughout the movie there are certain things that trigger his thoughts to come back. Walter Sparrow in the movie starts out as an animal…

Narrative enigmas are a vital part of storytelling, especially for the television serial. The story must go on, and the best way to make viewers keep watching is by bringing up questions that the audience will want answers for. Characters are normally motivated to find answers to the narrative enigmas running through their storylines and others. Generally the actions of characters that are motivated by these narrative enigmas will help move the story along in a sort of cause-effect chain. If we…

After the German Army fully adopted the Enigma, they gained a great advantage, as the Allies themselves did not know about the existence of this machine. The Army heavily depended on the belief that the Enigma codes were unbreakable, and with the limited amount of information and technology that the Allies had at the time, it was possible that they were not far from the truth. The reason the Allies were able to be made aware of even the existence of the Enigma was due to slips made by the…

Reflection #2 Alan Turing: The Enigma is a book written by Andrew Hodges, a reputable mathematics professor at the University of Oxford, that tells the story of Alan Turing, who invented one of the first prototypes of the modern computer. Because the novel was written by a math professor, the intended audience mostly consists of math students (at a college level) and because of that it is teeming with esoteric mathematical language. To help reduce the strain on readers, however, Hodges…

Forces. However, in the end, enigma was cracked. The Allies were able to find out what enigma was, and how the Germans used it. From there they were able to get their hands on an enigma machine, examine it, and determine how the mechanics work. Finally, Alan Turing, an English computer scientist, mathematician, stepped into the picture and was able to crack the code in 1932. The decoding of enigma in WW2 was the main reason that the Allied forces won the war. Enigma was a highly advanced…

One of the most prolific topics to come up when discussing World War II Dynamics is the Enigma machine. In a human war fought with human lives, technological advancements tend to dominate a fair amount of the discussion aside from the soldiers and leaders. Weapons and vehicle advancements are well regarded and have museums dedicated to them as they were a large part of what made this war so hard fought. It is important to make light of the somewhat hidden truth that behind every technological…

arrive at complete truth. I am particularly interested in contributing to this research and furthering my understanding of the complex field of mathematics. My inspiration is Alan Turing. I am currently reading the cleverly named 'Alan Turing the Enigma' by Andrew Hodges and marvel at his contributions to the world, which are particularly impressive given the hardships he underwent. His contributions to probability, in the form of central limit theorem and his breakthrough in computer science…

The city of Futuristic was originally named Norwich Hills. Futuristic has over 189,446 people and is slightly over 5 years old. It has an ocean in the south and west as well as a plato in the north. Futuristic has a market economy. We have industry that includes mining, tourism, and manufacturing. Futuristic has oil, ore, and coal, as well as lots of water. The ore and coal are on top of the plato but the oil is right under the starting highway. The water is evenly dispersed throughout…