Code Breaking: A History and Exploration - Rilegato

Kippenhahn, Rudolf

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ISBN 10: 0879519193 ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Casa editrice: Overlook Pr, 1999

Riassunto

An exploration of codes and cryptography offers a discussion of concepts and terminologies and moves to a wide-ranging chronicle beginning with the ancient Polybius and concluding with a look at contemporary techniques and an examination of current privacy issues. 22,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"A breezy survey of codes, ranging from the betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots... to the nature of credit card security." — –The New York Times

"This fascinating history of cryptology offers many remarkable stories." — –Christian Science Monitor

"Fascinating, clever, and informative... A thoroughly satisfyingbook!" — –Choice

L'autore:

Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics inMunich. For ten years he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Göttingen.

Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German.

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• Editore: Overlook Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879519193
• ISBN 13: 9780879519193
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 283