Mathematicians, musicians and chess players were singled out by the British Foreign Office during the Second World War for the exacting task of breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park. One of these cryptographers, the present author, has remained intrigued with the common factors linking these three noble activities of the human intellect: he suggests symbols of power and a logical tine of thought. But an expert in one activity need not excel in the others, he concludes.
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