Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
Language: English
Published by Overlook Press, 1999
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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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
- Author
- Kippenhahn, Rudolf
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good in Dustjacket
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0879519193
- ISBN 13
- 9780879519193
- Edition
- First Edition.
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About the Author
Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German.
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