Editing Max Newman (section)

==Early life and education==

Newman was born Maxwell Herman Alexander Neumann in [[Chelsea, London]], [[England]], to a Jewish family, on 7 February 1897.<ref name="odnb"/> His father was Herman Alexander Neumann, originally from the German city of [[Bydgoszcz|Bromberg]] (now in [[Poland]]), who had emigrated with his family to London at the age of 15.<ref name="n176">William Newman, "Max Newman – Mathematician, Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer", pp. 176–188 in {{cite book |title=Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-19-957814-6 }}</ref> Herman worked as a secretary in a company, and married Sarah Ann Pike, an Irish schoolteacher, in 1896.<ref name="frs"/>

The family moved to [[Dulwich]] in 1903, and Newman attended Goodrich Road school, then [[City of London School]] from 1908.<ref name="frs"/><ref name="Heard2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.jcc.org.uk/About-the-JCC/From-the-Archives/Max-Newman-s-Medal.aspx |title=Max Newman's Medal |last=Heard |first=Terry |publisher=John Carpenter Club (City of London School Alumni) |year=2010 |access-date=6 November 2016 |quote=the [John Carpenter Club] archive has recently acquired the Beaufoy Medal for Mathematics awarded to Max Newman in 1915 |archive-date=8 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108045937/http://www.jcc.org.uk/About-the-JCC/From-the-Archives/Max-Newman-s-Medal.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> At school, he excelled in classics and in mathematics. He played chess and the piano well.<ref name="colossus.newman">{{cite book |last=Newman |first=William |editor-first=B. Jack |editor-last=Copeland |title=Colossus The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |pages=176–188 |chapter=14. Max Newman - Mathematician, Codebreaker, and Computer Pioneer  |  isbn=978-0-19-957814-6 }}</ref>

Newman won a scholarship to study mathematics at [[St John's College, Cambridge]] in 1915, and in 1916 gained a First in Part I of the [[Cambridge Mathematical Tripos]].<ref name="odnb"/>