Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2000-10-1 Pages: 283 Publisher: Penguin The achievements of cryptography - the art of writing anddeciphering coded messages - have become a part of everyday life. especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. Inthis provocative work. Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both anexciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of thecryptographers craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history ofcoding and decoding. Code Breaking brings the often abstruse art ofdeciphering coded messages to the general reader and reveals therelevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishlywritten. meticulously researched adventure. it will enthralleveryone who wants to know more about the ways in whichcommunication can be obscured and. like magic. made clearagain. A Selection of Doubledays Library of Science Book Clu...
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