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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS ADD 426/A/1/4
TitleTS "The Story of Blanche Descartes, or how Bill Tutte got to Bletchley Park"
Date[2002]
DescriptionTypescript by Smith, contains additional title "Article 2073", 4pp. Smith reminisces about Cambridge University friends, including Leonard Brooks, Arthur Stone and Bill Tutte, and relates stories about the "squaring of the square" mathematical problem and the creation of the fictional mathematician Blanche Descartes.
Extent1 folder
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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