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paranormal 347ff
parapsychology 347–8, 350–1, 353
Paris 8, 35, 59, 102, 114, 407, 474, see also
Bâtiment Alan Turing
Paris exchange 147
Pascal Blaise 464
pattern 360, 362–4, 366–8, 371,
373–80, 383
illustration 366–8
photograph 375, 377
Patton, George 170
Payne, Diana 115
PCT, see physical computability thesis
PDP-11 computer 223, 229
Peano axioms 61–2
Peano, Giuseppe 61, 438
Pearcey, Trevor 49, 53, 244
Pearl Harbor 81
Peirce, Charles Sanders 438
Pembroke College, Cambridge 394
Pembroke V, see HMS Pembroke V
Penrose, Lionel 440, 442
Penrose, Roger 440, 461–2, 464
Pepys, Samuel 162
Perlis, Alan 473
Pet Shop Boys 470
Philosophical Transactions journal, see
Royal Society
philosophical zombie 299–301
philosophy 441ff
of mind 277ff, 464
physical computability thesis 459–61
physics 47, 236, 340, 348, 360, 367, 404,
433, 435, 441, 449, 451–4, 459, 461–2
laws 352, 362, 457, 461
Picchi, Rafael 431
Piddington, Sydney & Lesley 351
Pigou, Arthur 187
Pilot ACE, see Automatic Computing
Engine
Pitowsky, Itamar 459
Pitts, Walter 44, 214, 227
Place Alan Turing (Lausanne) 474
plaintext, see Enigma; Tunny
Planck, Max 340, 452
Planck length 452
Planck scale 453
Plankalkül programming
language 227, 330
Plowman, Eileen ‘Copper’ 138, 425
plugboard, see Enigma
plugboard pairs, see Enigma
Poe, Edgar Allan 133
poetry 268–9
Polish cipher bureau 100, 109
Polish codebreakers 8, 79, 98, 102–3,
176, 180
Polish government 100
Polish–French cipher bureau 102, see also
Château de Vignolles
Portal, Sir Charles 417
Porter, Cole 305
Portugal postage stamp 469
Post Office 71, 75, 178
teleprinter alphabet 165
Post Office Research Station 32, 71, 155,
175, 216
Post, Emil 396–7, 408, 432
Poznán University 100
precognition 347, 351, 356
Pride, Steve 470
prime numbers, see mathematics
distribution diagram 398
Prime, Geoffrey 33
Princeton computer 53, 200–3, see also
MANIAC
instruction set 207–9
Princeton Institute for Advanced
Study 53, 70, 200–1, 213, 404
Princeton University 7, 44, 63, 206, 213,
394–5, 403, 408, 412
Prinz, Dietrich 244, 288, 301, 339–42
photograph 288, 340
probability theory, see mathematics
probability 103
P r o f ’s B o o k 103–4, 107, 192, 423, 425
Programmers’ Handbook, see Turing,
Alan
Programming Research Group, see Oxford
University
proof theory 65
protein 374, 368, 376
Proudfoot, Diane 462
Pryce, Alec 35
psychology 277ff, 321, 348, 461, see
also experimental psychology;
parapsychology
and engineering 277–8
and mathematical logic 281–2
and Turing machine 281–3
P-type machine 317, 319, 324
Public Record Office, see The National
Archives
Putnam, Hilary 283–5, 412
PV Special Duties X, see HMS Pembroke V
Pyry forest 101–3, 109, 111Q
quantum computer 447, 461, 466
quantum entanglement 452
quantum mechanics 452, 459, 462
quantum random number generator 433
Queen Anne’s Gate (London) 161Queen Elizabeth II, see Elizabeth II, Queen
Qwerty keyboard 86
QWERTZU keyboard 86, 100–1R
Radiolaria 371, 383ff
computed shape 387–8
computer solution 388
drawing 384, 388, 405, 406
Manchester computer 386–7
Radley, Gordon 155
RAE, see Royal Aircraft Establishment
RAF, see Royal Air Force
Railway Enigma, see German Railway
Enigma
Ramsey, Frank 442
Ramshaw, Mrs 24
Randell, Brian 67ff, 175ff, 207, 224
random number generator 12, 211, 237,
339, 353–6, 432–3
randomness 356, 380, 427ff, 455, 461
algorithmic randomness 427, 430,
432–3, 435
Rayleigh, Lord 347
Reading University 287
reflector, see Enigma
Reidemeister, Kurt 440
Rejewski, Marian 79, 100–3, 109–11,
117, 125
Photograph 101
Rejewski’s method 117
reminiscence 49, 115, 167, 363, 364, 366
reminiscences
Alexander, Hugh 139
Batey, Mavis 99, 104
Brown, Iris 139
Caughey, Catherine 113–5
Champernowne, David 331–2
Clarke, Joan 425
Currie, Helen 157
Flowers, Tommy 155, 158
Glennie, Alick 335–6
Griffin, Sybil 417–18
Hilton, Peter 31ff
Ireland, Eleanor 161ff
Mitchie, Donald 267, 317, 329–30
Ogilvie-Forbes, Christine 138, 422, 425
Plowman, Eileen 138, 425
Prinz, Dietrich 342
Randell, Brian 67ff, 175ff
Richards, Bernard 383ff
Strachey, Christopher 236
Turing, Dermot 19ff
Valentine, Jean 110, 122, 125–7
Whelan, Ronald 417
Wolfram Stephen 43ff