CODE BREAKING; A HISTORY AND EXPLORATION.

Kippenhahn, Rudolf.

ISBN 10: 0879519193 / ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Verlag: Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999., 1999

Beschreibung

Reprint. 283 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth spine with black boards. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With two Prefaces, four appendices, and Index. Features thirteen chapters titled as: "Secret Writing in War and Peace;" "Hidden Messages and Codebooks;" "Codebooks in World War I;" "He Came, He Saw, He Encoded;" "How a Monalphabetic Code is Cracked;" "Caesars in Rank and File;" "Keywords Without End;" "Shuffled Texts;" "From Coding Disk to Enigma;" "Enigma's Secret is Unveiled;" "The Arrival of the Computer;" "Encryption Quite Publicly;" and "Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps." ISBN 0879519193.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PXZP-11884

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: CODE BREAKING; A HISTORY AND EXPLORATION.
• Verlag: Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0879519193
• ISBN-13: 9780879519193
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Mathematics

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

An exploration of codes and cryptography offers a discussion of concepts and terminologies and moves to a wide-ranging chronicle beginning with the ancient Polybius and concluding with a look at contemporary techniques and an examination of current privacy issues. 22,500 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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