Life
Good was born Isadore Jacob Gudak to Polish-Jewish parents in London. His father was a watchmaker, who later managed and owned a successful fashionable jewelry shop, and was also a notable Yiddish writer writing under the pen-name of Moshe Oved. Good was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, north London, where, Dan van der Vat writes, Good effortlessly outpaced the mathematics curriculum.
Good studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1938 and winning the Smith's Prize in 1940. He did research under G.H. Hardy and Besicovitch before moving to Bletchley Park in 1941 on completing his doctorate.
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