CODE BREAKING A History and Exploration

Kippenhahn, Rudolf

ISBN 10: 0094798907 / ISBN 13: 9780094798908

Published by Constable, London, 1999

About this Item

This copy is in new, unmarked condition quarter bound in black cloth to black paper covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Code breaking has always played a key role in espionage. Now, with the advent of electronic banking and wide-spread concerns about personal privacy, the issues surrounding the coding and decoding of information are more important than ever before' Ref CC 6.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CODE BREAKING A History and Exploration
• Publisher: Constable, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0094798907
• ISBN 13: 9780094798908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliant history and exploration of the art and science of cryptography, from Caesar to computer hackers. Illustrations. 22,500.

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 Göttingen.

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