Code Book - The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

Singh, Simon

ISBN 10: 0385495315 / ISBN 13: 9780385495318

Editore: Doubleday, New York, 1999

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New York: Doubleday. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight wear/soiling to covers and spine. Contents clean and tight. Dustjacket is slightly worn/rubbed with some creasing and a couple closed tears near the head of the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7-1/2" - 9-1/2" tall 0.0 . 8vo. . Codice articolo BOOKS309640

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Titolo: Code Book - The Evolution of Secrecy from ...

Casa editrice: Doubleday, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good/Very Good Minus

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Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto:

A look at the world of codes includes a history of how they have affected the world, from the World Wars to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots, and also looks at what the future holds for the field of cryptography.

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Praise for Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh:

"Vividly recounted...I strongly recommend this book to anyone wishing to catch a glimpse of what is one of the most important and ill-understood, but oldest, cultural activities of humanity...an excellent and very worthwhile account of one of the most dramatic and moving events of the century."
--Roger Penrose, The New York Times Book Review

"How great a riddle was Fermat's 'last theorem'?  The exploration of space, the splitting of the atom, the discovery of DNA--unthinkable in Fermat's time--all were achieved while his Pythagorean proof still remained elusive...Though [Singh] may not ask us to bring too much algebra to the table, he does expect us to appreciate a good detective story."
--The Boston Sunday Globe

"It is hard to imagine a more informative or gripping account of...this centuries-long drama of ingenious failures, crushed hopes, fatal duels, and suicides."
--The Wall Street Journal

"[Singh] writes with graceful knowledgeability of the esoteric and esthetic appeal of mathematics through the ages, and especially of the mystifying behavior of numbers."
--The New York Times

"[Singh] has done an admirable job with an extremely difficult subject. He has also done mathematics a great service by conveying the passion and drama that have carried Fermat's Last Theorem aloft as the most celebrated mathematics problem of the last four centuries."
--American Mathematical Society

"The amazing achievement of Singh's book is that it actually makes the logic of the modern proof understandable to the nonspecialist...More important, Singh shows why it is significant that this problem should have been solved."
--The Christian Science Monitor