Peter Hilton
Peter Hilton · Science & Medicine
Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker
1923, London, England — 2010, Binghamton, New York, United States
United Kingdom · United States
Peter Hilton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker
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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Algebraic topology and homological algebra; wartime codebreaker
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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