Mathematician:Peter John Hilton
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Mathematician
English mathematician best known for his work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, where he helped break the Lorenz cipher.
His academic interests lay in homotopy theory.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 7 April 1923 in London, England
- Died: 6 November 2010 in Binghamton, New York, USA
Publications
- 1953: An Introduction to Homotopy Theory
- 1958: Differential Calculus
- 1960: Partial Derivatives
- 1997: Foreword: "Mathematics in Our Culture" to Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg