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Edward Hugh Simpson CB (10 December 1922 – 5 February 2019) was a British codebreaker, statistician and civil servant. He was best known for having described Simpson's paradox along with Udny Yule.
Oct 25, 2019 · A tribute to Edward Simpson, a code-breaker at Bletchley Park, statistician and public servant. He worked on Japanese naval ciphers, developed Simpson's diversity index and paradox, and served in the Department for Education and Science.
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.
In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was in the process of divorcing her second.
Mar 26, 2021 · Learn about the life and marriage of Edward VIII, who gave up the throne for American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and the controversy and opposition they faced. The Windsors: Inside the Royal Dynasty is a Channel 4 documentary series that explores the history of the royal family.
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Jun 15, 2024 · Wallis Simpson, American socialite who became the wife of Prince Edward, duke of Windsor (Edward VIII), after the latter had abdicated the British throne in 1936 in order to marry her, since—as a woman twice divorced—she was socially and politically unacceptable as a prospective British queen.
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Here Edward Simpson tells the hitherto unpublished story of the part that Bayesian statistics played in breaking two of the enemy ciphers. It is now widely, though not yet universally, understood that the world’s first large-scale electronic digital com-puter was created at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
