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On February 13, 1980, in Warsaw, Poland, there died, at the age of 74, the man who, more than any other, was entitled to be considered the vanquisher of the German Enigma machine cipher and thus one of the architects of Allied victory in World War II.

Marian Rejewski (MAR-yahn Rey-EFF-ski), foremost of the team of cryptologists who created what became known as the Ultra secret, was born on August 16, 1905, at Bydgoszcz, then called Bromberg as it was in the German-occupied zone of Poland, a country partitioned since the late 18 ^th century between Prussian Germany, Russia, and Austria. He was barely a teenager when his country reappeared on the map in November 1918. At a time when only a tiny proportion of the population attended university, he went to study mathematics at Poznan University.

We hope things are going well for you, that Mary is doing well - still dispensing good eatery to the fitness set, that the kids are doing well. How is my main man, Brian, making out these days? I am glad you went to Francis Marion . . . .helps keep Fox on his toes!!! Keep that up and give him my regards.

In early 1929, while still an undergraduate, Rejewski participated in a cryptology course organized for about twenty selected mathematics students...