Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Kippenhahn, Rudolf

ISBN 10: 0879519193 / ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Editore: Overlook Pr, Woodstock, New York, 1999

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283 pages. Black binding with silver lettering on spine. Charts and graphs scattered throughout the book. X-Library with the usual markings. Clear plastic protective dusst jacket cover glued down to binding. Photos of book on request.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
• Editore: Overlook Pr, Woodstock, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0879519193
• ISBN 13: 9780879519193
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: Vg
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Vg

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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.

Informazioni sull?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.