Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Kippenhahn, Rudolf/ Osers, Ewald (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0879519193 / ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Verlag: Overlook Pr, 1999

Beschreibung

326 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0879519193

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
• Verlag: Overlook Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0879519193
• ISBN-13: 9780879519193
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New

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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.