The Science of Secrecy: The secret history of codes and codebreaking / [Simon Singh]

Singh, Simon

ISBN 10: 1841154350 / ISBN 13: 9781841154350

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2000

Beschreibung

First UK Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1630

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Titel: The Science of Secrecy: The secret history ...

Verlag: Fourth Estate

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

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Book by Singh Simon

Críticas:

Singh is holder of a Cambridge PhD in physics, former BBC TV producer of Tomorrow's World and author of Fermat's Last Theorem, a 1997 bestseller and BAFTA documentary award winner for the accompanying programme he co-directed in the Horizon series. He has achieved another intriguing, brain-exercising work that has already won considerable success in its first form as The Codebook. This version is a tie-in with the Channel 4 series which Singh will present in five parts relating to the book during November and December. Among the accounts are how the Crimean War's course was changed by the cracking of the "unbreakable" Vigenere cipher, deciphering the code behind the doomed Babington Plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, the solving of the Zimmermann telegram that altered the outcome of the First World War, and reading the ancient hieroglyphics which revealed the language of the Egyptians. Singh also looks at contemporary challenges and problems concerning Internet security and the invention of public key encryption in a fascinating book that should emulate the success of Fermat's Last Theorem.