Secret History: The Story of Cryptology (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series) - Softcover

Bauer, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367685744 ISBN 13: 9780367685744

Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This unique, award winning book offers a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical perparation, the book presents the mathematics in sufficient detail and weaves the history throughout the chapters. In addition to the fascinating historical and political sides of cryptology, the author-a former Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History-includes interesting instances of codes and ciphers in crime, literature, music, and art. The book helps further enlivens the already extremely popular field of cryptology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Craig P. Bauer is an associate professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of Cryptologia. He was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History, where he wrote several papers for NSA journals, gave numerous lectures, and made substantial progress on a second book focused on unsolved codes and ciphers. He earned a PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367685744
• ISBN 13: 9780367685744
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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