From the obituary of a Bletchley Park
codebreaker who reportedly died on
Armistice Day (Monday, Nov. 11)—
"The main flaw of the Enigma machine,
seen by the inventors as a security-enhancing
measure, was that it would never encipher
a letter as itself…."
Update of 9 PM ET Nov. 13—
"The rogue’s yarn that will run through much of
the material is the algebraic symmetry to which
the name of Galois is attached…."
— Robert P. Langlands,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"All the turmoil, all the emotions of the scenes
have been digested by the mind into
a grave intellectual whole. It is as though
Bach had written the 1812 Overture."
— Aldous Huxley, "The Best Picture," 1925