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'''Shaun Wylie''', (January 17, 1913 – October 2 , 2009 <ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6389667/Shaun-Wylie.html Obituary], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph The Daily Telegraph] October 21, 2009</ref>)<br/>
was a British mathematician and along with [[Alan Turing]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II] codebreaker at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park Bletchley Park], contributing to crack the German [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine Enigma machine] and along with [[Jack Good]] and [[Donald Michie]] et al. in the section [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmanry Newmanry] headed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Newman Max Newman] to crack the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_SZ_40/42 Lorenz cipher] <ref>[[Jack Good]], [[Donald Michie]], [[Mathematician#GTimms|Geoffrey Timms]] ('''1945'''). ''[http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/index/tunnyreportindex.html General Report on Tunny]'' from [http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/index.html The Turing Archive for the History of Computing]</ref>.

=Machiavelli=
In [[Timeline#1948|1947-48]], along with Michie, Wylie designed [[Machiavelli]], a rival of Turing's [[Turochamp]] program <ref>[[Donald Michie]] ('''1974'''). ''On Machine Intelligence''. Edinburgh: University Press, [http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=085224262X abebooks.com], [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/4836304/used/On%20machine%20intelligence alibris.com], [http://www.biblio.com/isbn/9780852242629.html biblio.com]</ref> <ref>[[John Maynard Smith]], [[Donald Michie]] ('''1961'''). ''Machines that play games''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist New Scientist], 12, 367-9. [http://books.google.com/books?id=lo7r0zX_T0sC&lpg=PA369&dq=Machines%20that%20play%20games.%201961%2C%20New%20Scientist%2C%2012&pg=PA367#v=onepage&q&f=false google books]</ref>.
Turing began programming both at [[University of Manchester|Manchester]] but never completed them and they never played each other <ref>''Chronology of Computing'' compiled by [[Mathematician#DSingmaster|David Singmaster]]</ref> .

=See also=
* [[Machiavelli]]
* [[Alan Turing#DeathOfAlanTuring|The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing - Video]]

=Selected Publications=
* [[Shaun Wylie]] ('''2001'''). ''Breaking Tunny and the Birth of Colossus''. In [https://www.amazon.co.uk/l/B001H6O0OS/259-4216193-9971266?_encoding=UTF8&redirectedFromKindleDbs=true&ref_=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1&rfkd=1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Michael Smith], [http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/E_folder/erskine_p-z.html Ralph Erskine] (eds.) ('''2001'''). ''Action This Day: Bletchley Park from the breaking of the Enigma Code to the birth of the modern computer''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_Books Bantam]

=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wylie Shaun Wylie from Wikipedia]
* [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wylie.html Shaun Wylie biography], [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.html MacTutor History of Mathematics]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=1406 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Shaun Wylie]

=References=
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