Mary D'Empire

Mary D' Empire (January 13, 1930 – May 28, 2020) was an American mathematician who worked as a consultant for the National Security Agency (National Security Agency, also known as NSA) and a researcher of the Voynich Manuscript: she is considered the successor to the work of Tiltman, who in turn succeeded Friedman in the task of deciphering said work.

He personally interviewed Tiltman and Prescott Currier, both members of William F. Friedman's team, documenting firsthand his work 'The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma' (1978), reprinted in 1980 by Aegean Park Press.

He organized a symposium, held in November 1976, to present the latest work on its decipherment: these results appear in 'New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar'. Curiously, this book, erudite, very detailed and profound on many issues, does not contain a single complete page of the manuscript (although it does contain details of plants, nymphs or astrological signs), so the reader cannot get a correct idea of what it is like. the whole (text with images) or even what the original text is like, making it impossible to try to translate or find meaning in voyniché.

She is also the author of the work 'The Voynich Manuscript: A Scholarly Mystery' (published in "Manuscripts", 1977 and 1978) and 'An Application of Cluster Analysis and Multiple Scaling to the Question of "Hands" and "Languages" in the Voynich Manuscript', published in January 1992.