The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking
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.
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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781857028898 (1857028899)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Popular Science,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Mathematics
Published 1999. “[ ] One-way functions are sometimes called Humpty Dumpty functions. Modular arithmetic, sometimes called clock arithmetic in schools, is an area of mathematics that is rich in one-way functions. In modular arithmetic, mathematicians consider a finite group of numbers arranged i...
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Absolutely fascinating. I recommend this to any of my friends on the geeky end as it has lots of juicy technical bits. That said, don't be scared off by that as one could skim those bits and still really enjoy the historical aspects.
I was fascinated with codes and ciphers when I was a kid. I even had a "junior spy code kit" with a bunch of cool stuff and I could send little notes to friends with secret messages like "Mr. Nutzenjammer is a dork" and "Cindy eats her boogers" and we would all congratulate ourselves with our clever...
This is not something I would have picked up had my boyfriend not loved it. It's a very readable trip through the history of code making and code breaking from the world of ancient Greece, up to speculation about what the next breakthroughs might be.He really enjoyed attempting to break the codes at...
Interesting in parts but I didn't love it. I was hoping it would mostly be historical anecdotes about important codes and how they were (or weren't) broken and how that affected history. There was SOME of that, and it was always really good. But then he often gets really deep into the weeds about ho...
9 years ago
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