The Cracking Code Book

The secret history of codes and code breaking. Simon Singh''s best-selling title The Code Book now re-issued for the young-adult market. The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. Simon Singh brings life to an amazing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles - revealing the continual pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work out the secret languages of others. Codes have influenced events throughout history, both in the stories of those who make them and those who break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography. In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh also investigates other codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery of ancient languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that could hold the key to a $20 million treasure.

Info autore

Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow’s World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat’s Last Theorem for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simon Singh
• Editore: Haper Collins Children's Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 11 a 15 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.10.2004
• EAN: 9780007176045
• ISBN: 978-0-00-717604-5
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Scienze naturali, tecnica; History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Games & Activities / General, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / General, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Curiosities & Wonders, Work & industry / world of work (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 11 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, For secondary education, For National Curriculum Key Stage 4 & Gcse, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Law, police and crime, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3 (England & Wales), Mathematics & numbers, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Computers / General, codes;codebreaking;cyptology;the Enigma