The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted Ame

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1. This couple also debunked a hundred Shakespeare theories

The Friedmans, after the war, embarked on a remarkable fun project of using their extraordinary skills to duplicate, and thereby debunk a flock of theories of the "true author" of Shakespeare's works, supposedly concealed in various codes and ciphers in the text of the First Folio and other specimens of Shakespeare. Using the same techniques, they 'proved' that Hamlet was written by Theodore Roosevelt and the like. Their book, now scarce, is fascinating and entertaining reading, and very informative on codes and ciphers.