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The Code Book - The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext A history of codes and code breakers from the former "Tomorrow's World" producer whose "Fermat's Last Theorem" went straight to the top of the UK non fiction bestseller charts and was translated into 22 languages. Subtitled "The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking"! Singh unravels how codes and cyphers from Ancient Egypt all the way up to present day computer encryptions work! and also asks why we have such a yearning for secrecy. Popular science on a subject for which! as the success of recent "Enigma" and Bletchley Park titles shows! there is a proven appetite. Zusammenfassung The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.

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Autori Simon Singh
Editore Fourth Estate
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 06.07.2000
 
EAN 9781857028898
ISBN 978-1-85702-889-8
Pagine 402
Dimensioni 130 mm x 199 mm x 25 mm
Categorie Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie

popular science, SCIENCE / General, Coding theory & cryptology, Coding theory and cryptology, Universe;Physics;Biology;Chemistry;Space

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