During World War II, Germany controlled the seas with powerful submarines. The Allied Forces were helplessly defeated by the German troops that attacked suddenly, communicating each other by secret codes.
Knowing this, the British government secretly summoned thousands of experts to an old house near London. The people came from a wide variety of backgrounds, majors, and occupations, including scientists, chess champions, linguists, writers, crossword experts, and soldiers. They were given a special mission to crack the German codes. The German code generator not only produced 150 trillion number of cases with twenty-six alphabets, but was also set to refresh the code every 24 hours, making it almost impossible to be broken through.
However, after years of research, day and night, under the direction of genius mathematician Alan Turing, the code-breaking group eventually completed the mission. The decoder they made is considered to have greatly contributed to leading the Allied Forces to win and advance the end of the war.
As for its success, Scott E. Page, Professor at the University of Michigan in the U.S. analyzed that the group’s diversity solved problems. He added that if the group consisted only of brilliant minds with similar abilities, they wouldn’t have succeeded.