![]() His mathematical skills help him become one of the leading code-breakers at a time when there are many codes to break because of World War II. He is not in good shape and has bad coordination, so he ends up in the band and then cryptography school. He writes to Waterhouse but it’s clear that he can’t say anything about what he is actually doing due to government secrecy.Īfter Pearl Harbor, Randy joins the Navy. In the next section, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a mathematical genius attending Princeton meets Alan Turing and Rudolph von Hacklheber. The men working in another section have been deciphering messages sent by the Nazis using their Enigma Machine, which they do not realize the Allies have cracked. ![]() The novel begins in 1945 Shanghai where a corporal is part of a detail that fetches stacks of paper out of a military building. Although it’s science fiction, there are also elements of magical realism to the plot as well. ![]() The story follows several characters, many of whom are descended from other characters (in the modern day sections). It takes place in two different time periods-World War II and modern times. ![]() ![]() 1-Page Summary of Cryptonomicon Overall SummaryĬryptonomicon is a novel by Neal Stephenson that was published in 1999. ![]()
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