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The Polish Mathematician Who Cracked Enigma Before Alan Turing

Warsaw, Poland • 1932

Before the famous Bletchley Park efforts, three Polish mathematicians—Jerzy Różycki, Henryk Zygalski, and Marian Rejewski—had already cracked the German Enigma machine in 193...

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