Geoffrey Timms
Geoffrey Timms (born February 16, 1903 in Bradford , West Yorkshire , † December 2, 1982 in Auckland , New Zealand ) was a British mathematician and cryptanalyst who worked in Bletchley Park during World War II on the deciphering of radio messages encrypted with the Enigma rotor cipher machine the Wehrmacht was involved.
Life
Timms studied mathematics at the University of Leeds and graduated in 1925. He then moved to the University of Cambridge , where he received his doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on geometry The Nodal Cubic Surfaces and the Surfaces From Which They Are Derived by Projection under Henry Frederick Baker . In 1929 he went to the University of St Andrews , where he was a lecturer in mathematics from 1935. In 1929 he became a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society . In 1933 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . During the Second World War he was involved in the deciphering of the German radio messages encrypted with the Enigma cipher machine in Bletchley Park. After the end of the war, he moved to the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), where he worked until his retirement in 1968. In 1952 he became a member of the Order of the British Empire .
literature
- WL Edge: Obituary: Geoffrey Timms, OBE, Ph.D., FRSE In: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society . tape 26 , no. 3 , 1983, p. 393-394 , doi : 10.1017 / S0013091500004466 .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Geoffrey Timms. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey Timms in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 18, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timms, Geoffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and cryptanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1982 |
| Place of death | Auckland |