Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Kippenhahn, Rudolf

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ISBN 10: 0879519193 ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Published by Overlook Pr, New York, 1999

Language: English

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Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Publisher

Overlook Pr, New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0879519193

ISBN 13

9780879519193

Binding

Hardcover

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First Printing

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As New

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As New

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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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