THE distinguished mathematician Sir Christopher Zeeman (MdB 34-43) had this to say in The Guardian last week about the late Shaun Wylie, big gun at Bletchley Park and later at GCHQ:
I first went to the lectures on topology by Shaun Wylie to find out what the word meant, and was captured by his enthusiasm. Eventually he supervised my PhD thesis on the subject.
My father had died shortly after I was born, and I had always missed not having one, but Shaun filled that role. He taught me not only about mathematics but also about people, and becoming a serious academic. He was one of the finest people I have ever met.
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