irriconoscenza storica

"A few days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945 Churchill made a surprising and shocking move. He ordered the destruction of all evidence that decoding had helped win the Second World War. The fact that cryptography, Bletchley Park, Turing, Bayes’ rule, and the Colossi had contributed to victory was to be destroyed."

In pratica l'apporto che statistica e matematica furono in grado di dare alla vittoria degli alleati sul nazismo venne cancellato dalla storia (almeno fino al 1973).
Così come l'impegno di tutti quegli uomini e donne che ad esso contribuirono.



Dal libro
"The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy"
di Sharon Bertsch McGrayne