MathFiction: Sekret Enigmy (Roman Wionczek )

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Sekret Enigmy (1979)

Roman Wionczek
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Although Alan Turing tends to get much of the credit for breaking the Nazi "Enigma" codes during World War II, three Polish mathematicians did preliminary work that (depending on who you ask) either equally brilliant and important or even more so. This film tells their story, featuring some real acts of heroism.

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Works Similar to Sekret Enigmy

According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:

Enigma by Robert Harris / Tom Stoppard
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Cypher Bureau by Eilidh McGinness
The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson
Infinity by Patricia Broderick
The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum (director) / Graham Moore (screenplay)
The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
Sebastian by David Greene (director)
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Number of Love (The Codebreakers) by Roseanna M. White

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Categories:

Genre	Historical Fiction, Adventure/Espionage,
Motif	Cool/Heroic Mathematicians, Real Mathematicians, War, Turing,
Topic	Computers/Cryptography,
Medium	Films,

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