雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(84)
The Mathematics Division, however, was new.
In about March 1944 a proposal had been mooted for an independent Mathematical Station, and this suggestion, a fine example of wartime planning for peace,
大約在1944年3月，有一份關於設立數學中心的提議，這是一個在戰時對戰後進行打算的好例子。went to a large interdepartmental committee, itself a manifestation of cooperation and coordination unthinkable in peacetime days.
這份提議被送到一個大型的聯席委員會，這種合作和統一協調，在和平時期是無法想象的。
The government accepted the principle of continuing the funding found necessary in war, and a centralised, rationalised institution was planned to take over the various ad hoc offices which had done the mostly dreary work of numerical computation for military purposes.
政府繼續實行戰時的財政原則，打算用集中、整合的機構，來接管戰時從事軍事計算的各個獨立部門。Sir Charles Darwin had persuaded the committee to establish it as a division of the NPL.
而查爾斯·達爾文爵士則說服委員會，將這個數學中心建成國家物理實驗室的一個部門。But the telephone call to Hanslope was not made at Darwin's behest.
打電話到漢斯洛普，並不是達爾文安排的，It was made on the initiative of his subordinate, Womersley, who had been selected as head of the new Division on 27 September 1944.
而是沃默斯利自己打的。沃默斯利於1944年9月27日當選爲這個新部門的主管，Womersley, a bulky Yorkshireman then attached to the Ministry of Supply and a member of the interdepartmental committee,
他是個虎背熊腰的約克郡人，本來在軍需部工作，併兼任聯席委員會的成員。was probably the nominee of D.R. Hartree, who in mathematical matters was a power behind the Darwin throne.
他可能是被D.R.哈特里提名的，哈特里在數學方面是達爾文的後盾。Womersley had appeared as joint author with Hartree of a 1937 paper on the application of the differential analyser to partial differential equations.
沃默斯利作爲聯合作者，在1937年與哈特里共同發表了一篇論文，關於差分機在偏微分方程中的應用。
