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Science & Medicine

Peter Hilton

Who

Peter Hilton · Science & Medicine

What

Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker

When

1923, London, England — 2010, Binghamton, New York, United States

Where

United Kingdom · United States

Biography

Peter Hilton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker

How & why

Peter Hilton was a British mathematician noted for contributions to algebraic topology and homological algebra (including Eckmann-Hilton duality), and, as a teenage recruit at Bletchley Park, for helping break the German 'Tunny' teleprinter cipher. His father, Mortimer Jacob Hilton, was a Jewish physician; Hilton was of partial (paternal) Jewish descent.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker

1923

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics