Talk:Max Newman

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[edit] Jewish mathematician category

Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Jack Copeland ed, states that Newman's wife, Lyn, had children of "part-Jewish descent". This website adds that, "a longer (unpublished) version of this article describes the father of Max Newman as `a Jewish immigrant'", but I'm not sure we can use that as a reliable source.

I'm not convinced that it's particularly useful to use this category here. — Matt Crypto 14:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

I've sketched out some info we'll likely want to cover based on William Newman's biography:

• Pre-war
  • Birth, parents etc
  • Schooling, Cambridge
  • WWI stuff
  • Research in topoogy, flawed proof of Poincare conjecture
  • Interactions with Turing
  • Marriage to Lyn
• Wartime
  • Family left for US (returned later)
  • Search for war work
  • Joined Tiltman's group on Tunny
  • Idea for Heath Robinson
  • Start of Newmanry
  • Colossus
  • Admin of Newmanry
• Post War
  • Move to Manchester, computing
  • Return to work on topology
  • Post retirement

— Matt Crypto 16:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FRS bio

• J. F. Adams, "Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander", volume 31, November 1985, pp. 436-452