Woodstock. 1999. May 1999. Overlook Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0879519193. 283 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. keywords: Cryptography History Codes. DESCRIPTION - 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 this provocative work, 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, CODE BREAKING brings the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, it will enthrall everyone who wants to know more about the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again. inventory #26676.

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Title: Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
Publisher: Overlook Press
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879519193
ISBN 13: 9780879519193
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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.

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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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