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| - Shaun Wylie (born 17 January 1913) is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker.
Wylie was born in Headington, Oxford, England, and educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College. He won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied mathematics and classics. At Princeton he met fellow English mathematician Alan Turing. He accepted, and arrived in February 1941. and was a member of a panel of five "bombe controllers" established in mid-1942 to decide how to allocate time on the codebreaking machines.
Wylie transferred in Autumn 1943 to work on "Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher. He married Odette Murray, a WREN in the section. In 1945, soon after the victory in Europe, Wylie demonstrated how Colossus — electronic machines used to help solve Tunny — could have been used unmodified to break the Tunny "motor wheels", a task which had been previously done by hand. While at Bletchley Park, he became president of the dramatic club, and won an unarmed combat competition. He had also played international hockey,
After the war, he was a fellow at Trinity Hall and lectured in mathematics. He was the PhD advisor for Frank Adams, Crispin Nash-Williams, William Tutte and Christopher Zeeman. He retired in 1973, and taught at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (later Hills Road Sixth Form College) in Cambridge for seven years.
His son, the late Keith Wylie, a barrister, was a croquet international and open champion of Great Britain. (en)
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