The mysterious Topsy plays fast and loose with the so-called 23 Enigma, a phenomenon noted by William Burroughs and the occultist Aleister Crowley, based on the number's supposedly uncanny recurrence in historical, scientific and artistic spheres.
His page-turning 1997 account of the solution of a mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Enigma, was a bestseller.
Novelistic vivacity, the great unteachable, the unschooled enigma, has a way of making questions of form appear scholastic.
Based at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.
His most recent film score featured in the 2001 war thriller Enigma, while a musical version of Brighton Rock, created with lyricist Don Black, had its London premiere in 2004.
The real test is for Mr Aliev, who is as much of a Caucasian enigma as his country.
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Described by Mehta as "a cross between Pat Buchanan and Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator", Mr Thackeray was a bewildering enigma.
This year, Chelsea has been a tactical enigma at both ends.
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Young and very talented, he has been picked over Ravi Bopara, who remains something of an enigma, and principally as a batsman.
Alvin Estevez is president, co-founder, and managing director of Enigma Software Group USA, a developer of PC and Internet security systems, including the SpyHunter anti-malware software diagnosis and removal utility.
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This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
For most of the last century, Overhills was a deliberately low-profile enigma.
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Big institutional investors may sell because their policies forbid them to own stock in a company that has become an enigma.
"Working in tandem, I think we can be confident of a resolution to the dark matter enigma sometime in the next few years, " Heuer said.
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It is currently housed in Block B alongside the Enigma and Turing Exhibitions but its popularity means a bigger home is needed ahead of the park's relaunch in 2014.
At a concert Saturday night, the Phoenix Symphony added to the program a somber selection from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations to honor the victims.
Love him or hate him, the philandering pol with a pizzerial past is a mystery wrapped in a chimera nestled in the inner sanctum of an enigma buried deep inside yet another chimera.
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Some attribute it all to the enigma that is Alan Greenspan, who fervently believes in free markets as a part of human nature.
"I am definitely an enigma for the position, " Taylor said Friday after the Giants opened a two-day camp for rookies and free agents.
While he denied his involvement in the coup at the time, he conceded in Enigma, authored by Nigerian Babafemi Badejo in 2006, that he played a central role in it.
For the film Enigma, he learnt the fundamentals of code-breaking to play Tom Jericho, a mathematics genius at the centre of the film.
While the resulting situation is initially played for laughs, it soon grows deadly serious, and the enigma of Harold's relationship to his orphaned "sons" is resolved in a manner of speaking by the shedding of blood.
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