The Story In Depth

There are many documented sources of information regarding the Dayton code breaking effort. The most dramatic and detailed are at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. However, some documents remain in the NCR Archive at Dayton History. And there is much research yet to be done. The list below contains links to documents and information available at this site.

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It was a little ironic when, after a half century of mathematicians trying to convert math into a set of non-numerical ideas, as the computer age dawned, a new technology produced a demand for a system that could render ideas as a series of numbers. One result was game theory, one of the most crucial pieces of a-plied math ever conceived.

A game of chance involves calculating the probabilities of winning or losing events. In 1928, American scientist John Von Neumann founded the field of game theory, in which probability and strategy were applied to real-world situations.

Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers. Ed. Tom Jackson Shelter Harbor. Press New York.

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