RADFORD, Va., April 9 -- Radford University issued the following news release:

In March, Professors Neil Sigmon and Anthony Dove jetted, with a small group of students, across the Atlantic Ocean to England and France to visit and explore locales where some of the most significant and calculating moments in mathematical and human history have occurred.

Radford students and faculty pose in front of Bletchley Park.

The journey was part of a World War II-themed studying abroad cryptography course and math history course the Radford University professors of Mathematics and Statistics are teaching this spring semester. The trip, the third Sigmon has offered since 2018, focused partly on the work of Alan Turing and the British codebreakers who,...