2026-07-23 17:00 UTC
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John Herivel was a mathematician and one of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
He is best known for the "Herivel Tip" a breakthrough that became one of the key methods used to crack the German Enigma cipher in 1940.
In 1956, he joined the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) as a visiting scholar, becoming part of the Institute's distinguished tradition of mathematical
and scientific research.
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