Code Breaking: A History and Exploration

Kippenhahn, Rudolph

ISBN 10: 0879519193 / ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Published by Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, 1999

About this Item

283 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. First published under title: Verschlusselte Botschaften. Translated from the German, in collaboration with the author, by Edward Osers. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "The achievements of cryptography, the art of writing and deciphering coded messages, have become a part of everyday life, especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. In Code Breaking, Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer's craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, Code Breaking explores the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again. / Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. For ten years he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Gottingen. Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
• Publisher: Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879519193
• ISBN 13: 9780879519193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • A BARGAIN BASEMENT
  • XL: Extra Large

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Synopsis

Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of c

Synopsis

Disusses concepts and terminologies, looks at the history of cryptography, and examines contemporary techniques and privacy issues.