Reprint. 283 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth spine with black boards. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With two Prefaces, four appendices, and Index. Features thirteen chapters titled as: "Secret Writing in War and Peace;" "Hidden Messages and Codebooks;" "Codebooks in World War I;" "He Came, He Saw, He Encoded;" "How a Monalphabetic Code is Cracked;" "Caesars in Rank and File;" "Keywords Without End;" "Shuffled Texts;" "From Coding Disk to Enigma;" "Enigma's Secret is Unveiled;" "The Arrival of the Computer;" "Encryption Quite Publicly;" and "Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps." ISBN 0879519193.

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Title

CODE BREAKING; A HISTORY AND EXPLORATION.

Publisher

Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999.

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0879519193

ISBN 13

9780879519193

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Mathematics

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The achievements of cryptography, the art of writing and deciphering coded messages, have become a part of everyday life, especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. In Code Breaking , Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer’s craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, Code Breaking explores the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again.

About the Author

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 G�ttingen.

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

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