On a T Shirt, for that "I helped beat back the Nazis" mathematical guru in your life. All proceeds go to saving Bletchley Park.
I know, I know - brute force encryption key cracking is so 1990s. But this was 1940s. "Big Iron" meant lots of moving parts!
Cool stuff! The Nazis displayed a lot of flash and finery with snooty sophistication and whizbang gizmos - but they drank their own cool-aid of elitism. In tactics as in physics they kept trying to pound a square peg - the Russians altered their tank maneuvers and tactics, the Germans didn't and lost at Krusk and that lead to Stalingrad.
ReplyDeleteBut while nowdays it seem so clear that we had the better math-and-science guys, and that our physics was the one that worked - back then there was no telling, and a lot of it was just sheer grunt and drive using paper and pencil, eliminating one thing at a time.