Shaun Wylie
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Mathematician and World War II codebreaker
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shaun Wylie was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Early life Wylie was born in Oxford, England. The fourth son of Sir Francis Wylie and his wife Kathleen , he was educated at the Dragon School and then Winchester College. He won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied mathematics and classics. In 1934, he went to study topology at Princeton University, obtaining a PhD in 1937 with Solomon Lefschetz as his supervisor. At Princeton he met fellow English mathematician Alan Turing. He became a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1938/1939.
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