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Newman was born in Chelsea, London, England. From 1927 to 1945 he was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where his 1935 lectures on Foundations of Mathematics inspired Alan Turing to embark on his pioneering work on computing machines. Newman was appointed head of the mathematics department at the University of Manchester, England, in 1945 and transformed it into a center of international renown, retiring in 1964.

He was heavily involved in the design of the Colossus computer, used to crack the Lorenz cypher in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough; his codebreaking section at Bletchley ParkBletchley Park BP was the site of a secret British military intelligence operation during and just before World War II (WWII). The site was named after the mansion in the grounds of which it was established. While the mansion was part of the operation, ma was termed the Newmanry.

Newman wrote Elements of the topology of plane sets of points, a definitive work on general topologyTopology is the study or science of places. It derives its name from the Greek words τοπος meaning place and λογος meaning study, talk. See also earth science, geography, human geography, g. He also made major contributions to combinatorial topologyIn mathematics, combinatorial topology was an older name for algebraic topology, dating from the time when topological invariants of spaces (for example the Betti numbers) were regarded as derived from combinatorial decompositions such as simplicial compl. He died in Comberton , near CambridgeThis article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. The city of Cambridge is an old English University town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and i.

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• Fellow of the Royal Society, Elected 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26
• Royal Society Sylvester Medal, Awarded 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat
• London Maths Society, President 1949 - 1951
• LMS De Morgan Medal, Awarded 1962